StCirq

Jeez, could you be less tactful or more inappropriate?

Loacker

I didn't mean to provoke anyone. I was just thinking out loud. I just can't fathom the idea that a supposedly merciful God would allow a building to crumble on two innocent children.

To me there's no religious text that can justify this.

I thought this was a forum with open-minded people. Turns out I was wrong.

Ackislander

If you had any knowledge of what people believe, one might engage in a discussion with you. No mature and educated believer thinks god allows buildings to fall on innocent children.

You are clearly ignorant of religion and theology, puerile in your thinking, and contemptible in your use of the tragedy of others to celebrate yourself.

It isn't worth engaging with you.

StCirq

What Ackislander said.

First you get insulted because you offer incredibly one-time, limited, and incorrect information on Paris in a field of people far more knowledgable than you; now, you're using religion to cloak a real-life tragedy, which is not only irrelevant but reprehensible. There are plenty of open-minded people here - most people who travel as extensively as those here do are open-minded.

I would stop thinking out loud if I were you.

pariswat

Ite missa est.
Nice 2 posts hereabove.

Loacker

Ackisland and Pariswat, I'm entitled to my opinion. And you are entitled to yours. But you have no right to calm me names like imbecile and cloaca.
I have reported your answers. Why can't you learn to be rude yet polite like St.Cirq?

annhig

I thought this was a forum with open-minded people. Turns out I was wrong.>>

just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean you have to say it - there is a time and a place.

This is neither the time nor the place for philosophical discussions about the existence of God/s and the nature of any deities in which people may or may not believe.

If you want to start a thread about those topics, please do so, and we can have an open-minded discussion there.

Whathello

Imbecile is quite polite. Unless it acquires an insulting meaning in English. But I guess people like Loacker cannot be expected to think of the fact that some poster are not native English speakers.
I love your idea of reporting, staff will have a look at your record.

kleeblatt

Sadly this thread has derailed into the dark domain of religion.

There may be a God or there might not be. However, the fact is there was an earthquake and people were killed.