"I once prayed everyday for a bike. I prayed and prayed but I never got the bike. So I stole one and asked for forgiveness."
2006-09-24 13:05:58 · 11 answers · asked by tsavo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
From comedian Groucho Marx
2006-09-24 14:29:16 · update #1
Yep
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
- Steven Weinberg
2006-09-24 13:07:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not think this is a religious question. This is a practical question - unless you prayed for forgiveness from the person from whom you stole the bike!
Acceptance of whatever is given/not given by 'God' is true devotion.
2006-09-24 20:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by mahen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understandably you have the rational of a true believer. If you sin, just ask forgiveness for the error it's forgiven and then you are pure. That is a user of the law not a believer in the faith. Shame.
2006-09-24 20:10:44 · answer #3 · answered by ImMappam 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never heard the quote. But I do not agree with it. I hope no one would steal a bike to begin with.
2006-09-24 20:09:05 · answer #4 · answered by son-shine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you NEED the bike? Or did God give you someting else and you just were HELL bent on getting a bike? God answers the prayers of the rightous and He gives them what they NEED.
2006-09-24 20:09:31 · answer #5 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you give the bike back? If you haven't you are living in the sin of stealing... Jim
2006-09-24 20:34:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That isn't a religious quote. I don't know if anyone ever actually said such a stupid thing, but if so, they were not Christian, no matter what color shirt they were wearing.
2006-09-24 20:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha. That gets better results than prayer does.
2006-09-24 20:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More of a cynical comment
2006-09-24 20:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol, cynical but valid in some cases...
2006-09-24 20:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋