"G*d only helps those who help themselves"

[devilgrrl]

What heaping pile of crap that is! Who came up with that line of bullsh*t?

[SunDrop23]

1. Uhhh....can you be a little more specific?

[Tom Kitten]

7. I helped myself to stealing your sig pic

And I silently said "God help me" as I did so...

[SunDrop23]

15. Not a prob, enjoy and spread the word.

God bless you...LOL

[tabasco]

2. I don't know but if a winger says it to you ...

ask them why are we in Iraq??

Republicans seem so altruistic towards the Iraqis but seem to hate most Americans.

[Hello_Kitty]

21. Well, that is, when they're not saying

"Nuke the whole Middle East into a glass factory!!" or some other idiotic mouth-breathing bluster like that.

[Cobalt Violet]

3. Benjamin Franklin

[steve2470]

4. I've heard "God helps those who help themselves"

but to imply that He/She/It never helps the passive or helpless is total BS in my book.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Then you don't understand the concept

of free will.

God doesn't help anyone good, bad or indifferent.

[steve2470]

10. I guess I don't believe 100% in free will then

I think on infrequent occasions "God" does assist us. But yes, usually I think God leaves us alone to our own silly devices.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Yes

God can help us if we listen to his advice. But in the end everything is up to us and our actions and deeds. If we have a test coming up and we don't study none of the prayers in the world could help us pass the test because we failed to study and prepare. Something like that.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Exactly

God gave us freewill. We can help ourselves. God isn't your magic godmother or godfather or whatever. We can't just get things when we want them. Sometimes a prayer isn't answered because it isn't meant to happen and/or there's something else in store or something else going on that we may not know about. Too many people think God is like a magic fairy or something. God isn't like that. There are also choices and consequences.

[CityZen-X]

20. Your life is...

a mirror of your consistent thoughts!

[TayTay]

19. This was said by Ben Franklin

The 'God helps those who help themsevles' line is not in the Bible. It was a (wry) comment on how the world works.

The New Testament suggests that the world belongs to those who keep the commandment to Love one another and to treat one's engihbor as you would yourself. That is in direct opposition to the idea that God favors those who are selfish and are only looking out for number one.

[seabeyond]

5. freewill.....n/t

[Maple]

8. Last time I heard it

it was 'God help those who get caught helping themselves!'

[kiraboo]

9. I think it's supposed to mean that we ain't never gonna win the

lottery if we don't get off our butts and buy a ticket.

[blue sky at night]

11. Majority of foolish Christian Americans........

believe this is gospel. It is indeed a quote from one of our older American Hippies, Mr. Ben-Jamin Franklin. I posted about this a few weeks back, I will see if I can find the link. The poll was funny.

Here I found the quote, from the Christian Paradox, by Bill McKibben;

Only 40 percent of Americans can name more than four of the Ten Commandments, and a scant half can cite any of the four authors of the Gospels. Twelve percent believe Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. This failure to recall the specifics of our Christian heritage may be further evidence of our nation’s educational decline, but it probably doesn’t matter all that much in spiritual or political terms. Here is a statistic that does matter: Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.” That is, three out of four Americans believe that this uber-American idea, a notion at the core of our current individualist politics and culture, which was in fact uttered by Ben Franklin, actually appears in Holy Scripture. The thing is, not only is Franklin’s wisdom not biblical; it’s counter-biblical. Few ideas could be further from the gospel message, with its radical summons to love of neighbor. On this essential matter, most Americans—most American Christians—are simply wrong, as if 75 percent of American scientists believed that Newton proved gravity causes apples to fly up.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Then I guess they think

God is their fairy godfather or something.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Rich AHoles?

:shrug:

[bonito]

17. you can't take anything literally

god is, and are you as well, what is is god. that's where it ends as far as that quote is concerned. but god helps those that don't help themselves as well because outside of god there isn't. When you realize what you are, man words can't go there, you just have to leave our thinking concepts behind or else try to rationalize with the knowledge of man, a concept. We are more than our concepts, man did not create man. I hope this helps I know it sound like a bunch of nothing, but I can't give you what you alreay have. peace.

[davekriss]

18. A little different point of view...

"Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us; the work we choose should be our own, God lets alone."
-- Henry David Thoreau

[thereismore]

22. It's not in the Bible. Just a fallible, human thought. n/t

[DemInDistress]

23. I agree with you..

when did God say this? to whom did God say it to? would God reward murderers? Sept.11 2001 is the day God should have struck down the perpetrators {the Bush Crime family & osama] yet God went missing that day...heaven and hell is another myth..