by Perry Hall<\/p>\n
In Megan Rappinoe’s last game, she injured herself by tearing her Achilles tendon. She is the women’s soccer team captain and outspoken advocate for LGBTQT+. She immediately said afterward, “I’m not a religious person or anything and if there was a god, like, this is proof that there isn’t”.<\/p>\n
Let’s examine her “logic”.<\/p>\n
If bad things happening is proof there is no God, then logic demands when good things happen that is proof there is a God.<\/p>\n
However, such is self-contradictory because then God’s existence would be dependent upon good and evil existing in our lives. If God becomes dependent on circumstances:<\/p>\n
There is a lot I don’t know about good and evil and why it happens to whom. But I do know this: whether we like it or not, God is bigger than any one of us. His existence can’t be disproved because of your life or my life.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Perry Hall In Megan Rappinoe’s last game, she injured herself by tearing her Achilles tendon. She is the women’s soccer team captain and outspoken advocate for LGBTQT+. She immediately said afterward, “I’m not a religious person or anything and if there was a god, like, this is proof that there isn’t”. 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