Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Indonesia tsunami devastation filmed from above - BBC News" video.

  1. Prayers aren't going to help. God's will didn't drown your brother. If there was a god who gave a damn, he wouldn't have just looked away whilst thousands drowned. Science and education are your best hope. That, and stronger buildings.
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  2. So a different culture makes it okay to believe in nonsense? Try building your houses further from the coast rather than praying.
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  3. Earthquakes and tsunamis are as predictable in that part of the world as tornadoes are in tornado alley in the USA. I concede that it's simplistic to say "Why don't they all simply move" and to an extent I was being facetious, but if you live on a coast in a tidal wave zone, expect tidal waves. As for the birth of civilisation, whilst the ocean may have provided fishing opportunities, I suspect it was FRESH water sources, not ocean shorelines that drew ancient people. Salt water is of little benefit.
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  4. Ha ha. How many people in Palu prayed? How much good did it do them?
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  5. If by "stubborn" you mean I absolutely will not accept nonsense, then yes I'm stubborn. So praying can ensure that people have blessings in life? So what about all the people whose homes just got washed away and their families died - where are their blessings? And afterlife? Prove to me that there IS an afterlife. It sounds to me as though you are simply making things up. Didn't Jesus supposedly raise Lazarus from the dead? If the Bible is true (and it isn't) whatever you ask in Jesus name God will provide. Matthew 18:19; Matthew 21:22; Mark 11:24; John 14:13; John 15:7; John 15:16; John 16:23–24; James 1:5–6; James 1:17; 1 John 3:22; 1 John 5:14–15
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  6. If people feel so confident about the afterlife - a place of endless joy and happiness, why do they feel ANY sadness at all? Why struggle to stay alive when the flood waters rose? People can delude themselves that there will be a happy place after death. I have no problem with that. But thanking your friend in the sky for sparing you from the very same event he caused according to your beliefs is lunacy. Talk about no way for your god to lose!
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  7. I think that you are so convinced in the existence of your God that you can twist any reality to justify the way things are. If that makes you happy, fine, but don't teach it to kids and don't expect others to share your beliefs. Simply saying "God is above all" is like playing cards and saying the joker card trumps everything. At least in cards, the rules are made that way, but with your God it's HUMANS just making up the rules so that they won't look foolish.
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  8. I point out the absuirdity of religion. I encourage people to analyse the world using science and intelligence not faith indoctrinated by their parents. There is demonstrable value in what I teach beyond the placebo effect. What I offer can be tested, there is repeatable evidence for most of it. All you have is a book and your beliefs and personal feelings and experiences. Teaching faith is a pathway to making the world stupider. Electricity wasn't invented by faith. Diseases were not cured by faith. Agriculture was not improved by faith. Satellites did not enable global communication by faith. To suggest that what you do and what I do are the same is a complete misrepresentation, and frankly elevates your actions way beyond what they deserve. You have a fairy tale that makesa the world dumber. I have a method and evidence that has made it much better for the vast majority of people. All beliefs are not equal.
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  9. I don't believe there is a rule creator outside our world. You cannot prove that there is, but even if I accept that your God exists and he is the rule maker, why should I obey them? Why are they any more correct just because he is powerful? If he tells me to start murding babies, is it acceptable because he ordered it?
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  10.  @fauzanjamal4114  So you DON'T think stronger buildings would have helped?
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