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<blockquote data-quote="soonerwings" data-source="post: 1617472" data-attributes="member: 8035"><p>My argument is that the only "correlation" between the two is chance. If I buy a firestar semi-automatic pistol and a bayliner cabin cruiser on the same day, and the firestar blows up in my hand, it cannot be stated that the purchase of the bayliner had anything to do with the explosion and any resulting injury. Two distinctly different sets of decisions made during the same time period must be considered independently of one another. If one wants to make an argument that we haven't been blessed since we've made Israel an ally, it is also entirely possible to argue (and I'm not by any means advocating that either scenario is true) that the only reason we haven't completely disintegrated as a result of our poor economic/social decision making is because we've treated Israel well. I'm simply saying that there isn't evidence as to whether or not we've been divinely favored for any particular course of action. To make a statement like "how's that blessing thing working out for you" makes the implication that any perceived lack of blessing (or worse, condemnation as an opposite of blessing) assumes that one can prove that the blessing has/has not occurred as a result of a particular course of action. Clear as mud?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soonerwings, post: 1617472, member: 8035"] My argument is that the only "correlation" between the two is chance. If I buy a firestar semi-automatic pistol and a bayliner cabin cruiser on the same day, and the firestar blows up in my hand, it cannot be stated that the purchase of the bayliner had anything to do with the explosion and any resulting injury. Two distinctly different sets of decisions made during the same time period must be considered independently of one another. If one wants to make an argument that we haven't been blessed since we've made Israel an ally, it is also entirely possible to argue (and I'm not by any means advocating that either scenario is true) that the only reason we haven't completely disintegrated as a result of our poor economic/social decision making is because we've treated Israel well. I'm simply saying that there isn't evidence as to whether or not we've been divinely favored for any particular course of action. To make a statement like "how's that blessing thing working out for you" makes the implication that any perceived lack of blessing (or worse, condemnation as an opposite of blessing) assumes that one can prove that the blessing has/has not occurred as a result of a particular course of action. Clear as mud? [/QUOTE]
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