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Why Did God Create Atheists?

razairazerci:

religiousragings:

There is a famous story told in Chassidic literature that addresses this very question. The Master teaches the student that God created everything in the world to be appreciated, since everything is here to teach us a lesson. 

One clever student asks “What lesson can we learn from atheists? Why did God create them?”

The Master responds “God created atheists to teach us the most important lesson of them all — the lesson of true compassion. You see, when an atheist performs and act of charity, visits someone who is sick, helps someone in need, and cares for the world, he is not doing so because of some religious teaching. He does not believe that god commanded him to perform this act. In fact, he does not believe in God at all, so his acts are based on an inner sense of morality. And look at the kindness he can bestow upon others simply because he feels it to be right.”

“This means,” the Master continued “that when someone reaches out to you for help, you should never say ‘I pray that God will help you.’ Instead for the moment, you should become an atheist, imagine that there is no God who can help, and say ‘I will help you.’”

ETA source: Tales of Hasidim Vol. 2 by Mar

I started reading this and was worried it would be something attacking atheists, or bashing religion, but this makes me really, really happy.

I just finished supernatural on netflix and i need season ten and i also need a hug

I just finished supernatural on netflix and i need season ten and i also need a hug

Here’s my local television interview about my writing!

Here’s my local television interview about my writing!

emiblogsbooks:Percy has decided to join reading time today and...

emiblogsbooks:

Percy has decided to join reading time today and has jumped into my dogs’ spot. Little menace.

bluewaffleez:when yo momma call u for dinner and its not even...

bluewaffleez:

when yo momma call u for dinner and its not even ready

penguinrandomhouse:gq:oh is there a guy in this picture? we...

penguinrandomhouse:

gq:

oh is there a guy in this picture? we were too busy checking out the bookshelf! 

I meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean we can appreciate both

please DO NOT assume that just because my character is doing something that i as the writer

whatlovelybooks:

the-lustfulinsomniacs:

thedevilsbartender:

approve of it
am romanticizing it
have a kink with regard to it
think it is okay for anyone to ever do ever

because sometimes my character does things that I absolutely cringe at and which are almost painful to write.

but my writing a villain does not make me a villian

understand that it is fiction and I do not condone the wrong actions that sometimes are written out on my blog for in-character purposes.

SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

I agree with this post only as long as you show that what your “villain character” is doing is wrong

ambivalentaboutmarmite:sophiealdred:astoldbygengar:lets just be clear, if you spend the time...

ambivalentaboutmarmite:

sophiealdred:

astoldbygengar:

lets just be clear, if you spend the time baking a cake/cookies/brownies, you can eat as many of them as you want and the calories don’t count. you made those calories. you’re their god.

disclaimer: this does not apply to children you have made

looking at you Kronos

"Νύκτα θεῶν γενέτειραν ἀείσομαι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν. Νὺξ γένεσις πάντων, ἣν καὶ Κύπριν καλέσωμεν κλῦθι,..."

“Νύκτα θεῶν γενέτειραν ἀείσομαι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.

Νὺξ γένεσις πάντων, ἣν καὶ Κύπριν καλέσωμεν

κλῦθι, μάκαιρα θεά, κυαναυγής, ἀστεροφεγγής,

ἡσυχίῃι χαίρουσα καὶ ἠρεμίῃι πολυύπνωι,

εὐφροσύνη, τερπνή, φιλοπάννυχε, μῆτερ ὀνείρων,

ληθομέριμν’ ἀγαθή τε πόνων ἀνάπαυσιν ἔχουσα,

ὑπνοδότειρα, φίλη πάντων, ἐλάσιππε, νυχαυγής,

ἡμιτελής, χθονία ἠδ’ οὐρανία πάλιν αὐτή,

ἐγκυκλία, παίκτειρα διώγμασιν ἠεροφοίτοις,

ἣ φάος ἐκπέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα καὶ πάλι φεύγεις

εἰς Ἀίδην δεινὴ γὰρ ἀνάγκη πάντα κρατύνει.

νῦν δε, μάκαιρα, (καλ)ῶ, πολυόλβιε, πᾶσι ποθεινή,

εὐάντητε, κλύουσα ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν

ἔλθοις εὐμενέουσα, φόβους δ’ ἀπόπεμπε νυχαυγεῖς.

-

Of Night, mother of gods and men, I sing;

o Night, originator of all, whom we also call Cypris,*

hear me, blessed goddess, dark-gleaming, blazing with stars,

rejoicing in stillness and slumberous repose,

merry and delightful, friend of night-long fests, mother of dreams,

gentle bringer of forgetfulness from cares and surcease from suffering,

o sleep-giver, friend of all, driver of horses, glittering in darkness,

half complete, chthonic and sublime in turn,

circling, playful in sky-wandering chases,

you who send the light beneath infernal realms and flee back

to Hades, for mighty Necessity rules over all;

but now, o blessed one, I call you; greatly fortunate, longed for by all,

gracious, hearing the suppliant’s voice,

may you come, kindly, and banish fears which gleam in the dark.”

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Orphic Hymn to Nyx (3)

*Philopannyx (she who loves the whole night) was a cult title of Aphrodite.

dulect:*drops mic**comes back to make sure I didn’t damage the mic*

dulect:

*drops mic*

*comes back to make sure I didn’t damage the mic*