This might sound silly but I praise God for what He knows about car and motorcycle mechanics. My daughter has a clunker that has been a money pit. I just spent $80 to get the exhaust fixed and the noticed a loud clunking noise on the way to the shop. I was hoping it was just the muffler rattling. It wasn't. The muffler guy told me it was the air compressor - $900 to repair. That was the last straw and I planned on dropping the car off to a charity and take my losses. It is my daughters college car and she volunteers to help with kids at a church. She was devastated as she would have to quit that if she didn't have transportation. She and I talked about Rom 8:28 and that ALL works for good. But honestly, I was pretty bummed too. I prayed a lot about it that night. In the morning, I thought just maybe the belts could be rerouted to bypass the compressor somehow. It wouldn't have A/C but it might work. Was led to a forum and asked people who know about such things. Got an answer almost immediately - this car was designed with separate belts for power steering, alternator, fan belt, and compressor. That is rare among cars today. But it meant one cut with a knife and we had a working vehicle again. Praise God!!!
As a motorcyclist who does most of my own wrenching, I realize how little I know and how much God knows. I always make time to start these projects with prayer. There have been many "Lord I dont know where that bolt went but You do - could you enlighten me?" and it makes a great witnessing op.
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Yes, it's reassuring to know that God has his priorities nicely sorted out. And it's heartening to know that your daughter won't have to give up her volunteer work with the kids. I mean, it's not like she could have got a bus or something if she was really dedicated to it.
God hangs out in car mechanics' internet forums? There are many places which need a benevolent deity, I don't think a friendly mutual information exchange is one of them.
Also, prayer is not a substitute for mechanical knowledge. Please don't ever offer to fix a friend's bike.
As a motorcyclist who does most of my own wrenching... I always make time to start these projects with prayer.
So when your rear wheel locks up at 150 MPH because you didn't properly torque the nuts on the cush drive, to whom will you complain? God can simply turn a deaf ear as is usually the case.
(BTW, I've had this happen while club racing at Road America but it was due to faulty hub bearings. Lotsa "Oh my god!" and "Holy shit!" in the helmet 'til I slid to a stop. I guess that automatically makes me a believer.)
I'm sorry, but where exactly was God involved in all of this? Usually with these type of stories you get the standard 'I lost my car keys, but then I prayed to God and I found them on the drive'.
I'd follow this with the cut and paste 'why does God let children starve but help you find your keys etc. etc.'
But usually there's some sort of divine bridge to the gap in their knowledge. You don't know where the keys are, then you do. You don't know enough to pass an exam, you get an A anyway. The implication being that God stepped in and helped you.
In this case he doesn't know how to fix his daughter's car, he searches the internet and finds the info, then fixes it. All by himself.
Is he suggesting that God set up the forum for him to find or something? If he'd done nothing and gone down to find the car fixed one morning, or replaced by a new Bentley, I'd see the miracle. Because otherwise I'm at a loss with this one.
Well done Kevin, because of your praying, you'll never have a problem with your bike and you won't ever be injured in an accident.
However, a quick request to Kevin and other American motorcyclists, please could you stop using God as your mechanical adviser as it is preventing His valuable assistance elsewhere in the world. For every nut He tightens on your bike, He lets a child starve to death in Africa.
So you used a computer invented by atheists to communicate people who know about cars but not the bible so you could take a knife made of modern metal invented by atheist science and make your car run better.
Where does god come into play here?
It makes just as much sense to say Harry Potters magic did it.
This might sound silly but I praise God for what He knows about cooking.
I was making lunch and things tasted kind of bland, so I prayed to God the Almighty. Just then the neighbor's kid came in, tried what I was making, and said "it needs salt".
THANK YOU JESUS! The Lord himself appeared to me as a young child and showed me his grace.
I realize how little I know and how much God knows. I always make time to start lunch with prayer.
Amen
And what if your car had a serpentine belt? I'm guessing you would be talking about "God's will" and "closes one door, he opens another" and all that horseshit.
There have been many "Lord I don't know where that bolt went but You do - could you enlighten me?" and it makes a great witnessing op.
To whom? If you expect me to believe "God is all powerful and I should follow him" because you think he helped you find a bolt then you are bat-shit insane.
Thank God for "PEOPLE who know about such things."
Or not. It appears that the final score was:
People who know about such things, 1
God, 0
Fundies are so funny.
"God, please save the starving kids and stop the wars" - God: "No."
"God, please fix my motorcycle" - God: "Sure!"
The muffler guy told me it was the air compressor - $900 to repair.
Air compressor on a car? Did he also charge you to replace the muffler bearings and turn signal fluid?
Ah, you mean A/C compressor. Yes, God just magically changed the engine to require two belts instead of one long serpentine belt. Since there was more than one belt, what that tells me, along with the car being a piece of shit, is that it's an older car. No miracle needed.
And I'd have laughed hard if he'd cut the alternator belt by mistake.
"Was led to a forum and asked people who know about such things. Got an answer almost immediately ... Praise God!!!
As a motorcyclist who does most of my own wrenching, I realize how little I know and how much God knows."
So, god posts on an auto repair forum?
"This might sound silly but I praise God for what He knows about car and motorcycle mechanics."
I'll say. When it's Buddha who actually knows about such things; ever hear of the book "Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"?! [/smartarse]
Must've been a piss-poor bike then. One can never go wrong with a British -made motorbike, though; these are like gold among hardcore Hog riders in the US, especially BSA's, Norton's, Ariel's & Triumphs (Bonneville 750s are much sought after by bikers over there).
PROTIP: David rode a motorbike: His Triumph was heard throughout the land. And Jesus drove a car - a Honda. Because he & his disciples were all in one Accord. X3
This might sound silly
MIGHT sound silly?
If God ever did something mundane for me, such as fix my car or help me find my keys, I would say, "Thanks but no thanks for the help, God-don't you have starving people in the horn of Africa to worry about?"
"Lord I dont know where that bolt went but You do - could you enlighten me?"
I know a heart surgeon who uses a similar approach: "Lord, I don't know where this artery goes but You do - could you enlighten me?"
"Ummmm... could you hurry it up, Lord, this guy's bleedin' out."
"Ummmmm... Lord? Any time now...."
"Never mind, Lord."
As a confirmed agnostic, I wanted a website where I could comment with other agnostics and atheists. So, I used google and God made me find this site.
Uhh, no, wait a minute ...
The worst part, I think, is that he is discrediting what he apparently knows about mechanics; instead, he's offering credit to fictional beings.
So... You had a problem with your car, you slept on it and had an idea how to fix it. You went to a forum and asked some people. And it worked.
What did God do, exactly?
You're not giving yourself enough credit. You did it.
I always wondered. God created six million people on Earth, with a ton of different problems, among them POVERTY, HUNGER, WARS........and, nevertheless, he has to be mechanic(in this case)-bank owner-counsellor-secretary, etc............for some Mr or Ms Nobody in the Deep South. Sounds logical?
> As a motorcyclist who does most of my own wrenching, I realize how little I know and how much God knows. I always make time to start these projects with prayer.
As a software developer, I realise how little I know and how much other people know, so when I run into problems, I read the fucking documentation. And lo! My magic shall work again.
Silly Christian, you're giving thanks to the wrong god: if you just read your own holy book, you'd know that Yahweh is useless when it comes to iron chariots. Now give his proper credit (and sacrifices) to Hephaestus before he gets pissed off, he is known to be pretty creative when it comes to punishing those who wronged him.
Er, if God gave a flying fuck about your car why did it break down in the first place?
Stop confusing Google for God.
Confused?
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