It's more-or-less a belief in the "great clock maker" - a god who created the universe with the sole intention of letting itself play out on its own accord.

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Strickland Propane: Taste the meat, not the heat.

we made em, we deal with it.

we are mtv,
he is the man on the couch.

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i'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die,
so let me live my life, the way i want to.

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sometimes god gives us tests in life to prove our faith

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agrees...

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Miles away but closer then ever

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sometimes god gives us tests in life to prove our faith

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Have a think about what you're saying for a second. So i guess the Jews in the holocaust were just being tested? Okay maybe that's a bad example because you probably think the Jews are misguided in their beliefs or whatever, let's take any starving christian kid on the brink of death anywhere in the world (don't worry there's plenty of places to chose from) that's a pretty tough "test" much tougher than most (possibly all) people on this forum will ever have to face. All I'm saying is that it's easy to casually dismiss the suffering of others as a "test of faith" from the comfort of your own computer.