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Atheists & Agnostics

Brainstormy

(2,445 posts) Fri Mar 27, 2020, 06:31 PM Mar 2020

so what do you think? [View all]

is this epiphenoma going to make for fewer, or more, believers? Will the "good God" have his reputation besmirched? Will the unanswered prayers create more doubts? Or will the flattened curve testify to Providence? What are you seeing or hearing and how do you think the global virus outbreak will alter global religiosity?

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so what do you think? [View all] Brainstormy Mar 2020 OP

Usually, epiphenomena like this create more believers, afaik. Laelth Mar 2020 #1

I don't care one way or the other. LakeArenal Mar 2020 #2

OK. I get that you don't care Brainstormy Mar 2020 #4

I don't care if religion is under siege. LakeArenal Mar 2020 #6

I hope...but don't expect...people would question a God who dabbles in earthly affairs. We have Karadeniz Mar 2020 #3

as an atheist, I don't relate/ Brainstormy Mar 2020 #8

There is no evidence for souls uriel1972 Mar 2020 #14

Based on the Arkansas Ass of Gawd thing. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #5

me too, and Brainstormy Mar 2020 #7

God's song, by Randy Newman: thucythucy Mar 2020 #9

wonderful! Brainstormy Mar 2020 #10

Randy Newman is amazing. thucythucy Mar 2020 #11

There will be fewer believers in President Putin's Piggy Warpy Mar 2020 #12

You offered some good points Brainstormy Mar 2020 #13