Is God a vending machine?

[Nihil Obstat]

Chain letters of this type are just an underlying belief in occultism. I never pass on any kind of chain letter on principle, no exceptions.

[Norseman82]

I just bumped the following thread, since in a humorous way it is related to this topic:

[url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=14260"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=14260[/url]

[dairygirl4u2c]

i would almost venture the scheme is necessarily not true, can't be.

saints ahve surely wished for world peace, and many other things as aspirational. or techniclogical iprovements etc. never happens. wasn't anything to do wit the saints' sincerity etc, i'd imagine. that i can see.

[Don John of Austria]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1016861' date='Jul 3 2006, 09:02 PM']None.
The underlying belief is that of a child believing in magic, do such and such spell and you get what you want.

"If wishes were horses- then beggers would ride...."[/quote]
accept if you do sch and such spell you might indeed get what you want.
The devil works very much in this way, God does not. Just ask Job.

[Nihil Obstat]

Which brings us back to my comment about occultism.

[T-Bone _]

It always annoys me when people try to make God their errand monkey--I see this a lot on the religious shows.

[Fidei Defensor]

[quote name='T-Bone _' post='1938455' date='Aug 1 2009, 08:38 PM']It always annoys me when people try to make God their errand monkey--I see this a lot on the religious shows.[/quote]
Speaking of which, I need a good errand monkey...