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Originally Posted by cgeorge
I love how you idiots believe in any of this FICTION. That's what it is. FICTION. One thing that isn't fiction is karma.
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Who oversees your "karma"? Who hands out the rewards and punishments?
Here's a
great write-up on Karma. In part,
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“Karma requires an intelligence to record your deeds and respond with reward or punishment. Basically, they believe in a cosmic Santa Claus, who is keeping a list and checking it twice. More likely twice per second for each human, animal, bacterium, and plant. Pretty silly, right?
“Now, in the case of supposed ‘atheists’ who believe in karma, well, this proves they aren’t atheists after all. They have “faith” in a supernatural agency, and a very complex one that can track everything that everyone does, ever! Also, their fear of or hope for karma demonstrates that these so-called ‘atheists’ only pretend to have morals; they are acting in search of reward or in avoidance of punishment. Oddly, this is the very same charge so-called atheists level at Christians.”
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From http://www.skepdic.com/karma.html
Karma is a law in Hinduism which maintains that every act done, no matter how insignificant, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good; evil with evil. Since Hindus believe in reincarnation, karma knows no simple birth/death boundaries. If good or evil befall you, it is because of something you did in this or a previous lifetime.
Karma is sometimes referred to as a “moral law of cause and effect.” Karma is both an encouragement to do good and to avoid evil, as well as an explanation for whatever good or evil befalls a person.
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On one level, karma serves to explain why good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people. The injustices of the world, the seeming random distribution of good and evil, are only apparent. In reality, everybody is getting what he or she deserves. Even the child brutalized by drugged adults deserves the horror. The mentally ill, the retarded, and the millions of Jews killed by the Nazis deserved it for evil they must have done in the past. The slave beaten to within a breath of death deserved it, if not for what he did today, then for what he did in some previous lifetime. Likewise for the rape victim. She is just getting what she deserves. All suffering is deserved, according to the law of karma.
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