# I'm an atheist and even I'm mad at god about this **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697 "2010-01-20T15:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/1 "2010-01-20T15:00:54Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb\_haiti\_earthquake](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake) Was that really necessary? That isn’t even kicking people when they were down. The first earthquake hitting a dirt poor nation with tons of problems did that. This is more like kicking someone when they are down then finding out which hospital they are staying at, going there, and pissing on them while they are lying on a hospital bed with tubes coming out of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/2 "2010-01-20T15:13:42Z")
According to Pat Robertson, you should be mad at Satan. I mean as long as we’re assign blame to the ficticious. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/3 "2010-01-20T15:17:35Z")
Pat Robertson is fictitious? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/4 "2010-01-20T15:18:04Z")
Would that he were. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/5 "2010-01-20T15:22:34Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > According to Pat Robertson, you should be mad at Satan. I mean as long as we’re assign blame to the ficticious. Eh? Pat Robertson is real. ETA: Damn, **Wesley Clark** beat me to it! ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/6 "2010-01-20T15:43:41Z")
Most people believe in a terrorist God, or a God that allows a terrorist to go about his business without intervention. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/7 "2010-01-20T15:48:45Z")
Atheist, agnostic, or theist, you can’t help but think that someone/thing has it in for Haiti. As one bit of black humor had it on [Fark.com](http://Fark.com), “Well, Haiti’s run of luck had to end sometime.” ---
**Author:** ![Doughbag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Doughbag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doughbag)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/8 "2010-01-20T15:53:56Z")
It’s 2012 all over again… the special effect are still ripping through the earths crust. Let’s get one of these “Watchtower” magazines. GOD sucks!!! ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/9 "2010-01-20T15:58:04Z")
The best part about god is that he is all knowing. Therefore, he knows everything that will ever happen - including the earthquake on the little island on the little planet circling a little star in a little galaxy in the universe somewhere near sector 743.284.853dte45d. Since from his perspective it is all pre-determined god must actually be powerless to change it, or some kind of paradox would occur. Perhap then satan would win forcing us to stop symbolically eating zombie jesus. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/10 "2010-01-20T15:59:02Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > Atheist, agnostic, or theist, you can’t help but think that someone/thing has it in for Haiti. > > As one bit of black humor had it on [Fark.com](http://Fark.com), “Well, Haiti’s run of luck had to end sometime.” I don’t think anything has it out for them. I think it’s a horrible misfortune. I do “pray”, (or look up to the sky, and yell and scream at the heavens), but that’s therapy and superstition for me. I usually curse ‘God’. But no, I don’t think anything can hear me, or is applying any specific hardships on designated places or people. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/11 "2010-01-20T16:07:05Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#): > > The best part about god is that he is all knowing. Therefore, he knows everything that will ever happen - including the earthquake on the little island on the little planet circling a little star in a little galaxy in the universe somewhere near sector 743.284.853dte45d. Actually it’s sector ZZ9 Plural-Z A. FWIW, this isn’t a separate incident, this is part of the original incident. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/12 "2010-01-20T16:30:09Z")
So you’re just mad at no one in particular? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/13 "2010-01-20T16:34:39Z")
Do we know really how much damage/loss of life this latest aftershock caused? Because there were dozens of aftershocks prior to this one, and the news has made it pretty clear that fear of aftershocks has kept anyone from going into any buildings. So it seems likely that most people were outside and hopefully not affected much by this. The one thing I do worry about is rescuers that might have been inside unstable structures trying to rescue people. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/14 "2010-01-20T16:52:40Z")
It’s a good thing the aftershock happened - maybe 6.1 was a tad strong, but it didn’t seem to do much damage. And that stress had to be let out. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/15 "2010-01-20T16:54:43Z")
> [@Lanzy](#): > > So you’re just mad at no one in particular? Why not? Anger seems like a natural human responce to injustice and pain. In a world where you can’t always\* hold individuals accountable, it’s easy to get mad at nothing. Shit, I scream in my car on my way to work because it’s the only safe place to scream, (and curse). \*I logically have a hard time holding individuals accountable for their actions. I don’t think you turn 18, and suddenly you have ‘control’. (One’s nature, past and environment) ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/16 "2010-01-21T00:49:04Z")
You’re mad because aftershocks folowed an earthquake? ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/17 "2010-01-21T00:58:50Z")
I knew it was an aftershock. Yeah, among other things, I’m pretty pissed off… at the situation. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/18 "2010-01-21T01:34:04Z")
It’s sort of sad and disturbing that an earthquake/tsunami/hurricane gets such a near-universal outpouring of aid and support, yet attempts to fix the grinding poverty, ethnic violence, and disease that are a constant condition for a large portion of the world’s population are either ignored, branded as first-world imperialism/policing, or are viewed as a waste of resources since those people just can’t help themselves. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/19 "2010-01-21T01:40:29Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > It’s sort of sad and disturbing that an earthquake/tsunami/hurricane gets such a near-universal outpouring of aid and support, yet attempts to fix the grinding poverty, ethnic violence, and disease that are a constant condition for a large portion of the world’s population are either ignored, branded as first-world imperialism/policing, or are viewed as a waste of resources since those people just can’t help themselves. Exactly. It’s all about packaging and hype. Maybe if Haiti had a better press agent? Of course, a million people left homeless in a day is pretty striking. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697/20 "2010-01-21T01:53:59Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I knew it was an aftershock. Yeah, among other things, I’m pretty pissed off… at the situation. Hey now. Leave [Mike](http://annehelenpetersen.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/mike_0644.jpg) out of this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-an-atheist-and-even-im-mad-at-god-about-this/525697.md?page=2)