Do atheist have insurance policy that will pay for an act of God?
Jun 29, 2010
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Earthquake Insurance
Just curious if atheist carry insurance like flood or earth quake -since these are considered an act of God. If they do how to they justify making these purchases?
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19 comments
OKIM IM on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Just curious. Do churches carry flood insurance?
â„pulchritudinousâ„ on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Floods and earth quakes aren’t acts of God. It’s called nature.
Marcus on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
The verbiage of these legal definitions are relics with old and long historical roots. Many other such examples can be found. Modern understanding now explain volcanoes, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and communicable diseases. We now know about plate tectonics and understand weather patterns, and have the germ theory of disease. The idea of a God causing such thing has its origins in our primitive past. Knowledge elevates those who accept it and benefits even those who do not!
Vinnie on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Princess, you just got the award for the dumbest question of the day.
- Natural calamities are explicitly excluded from most insurance contracts. If you include them the premium goes way high
- How can in 21st century you can think earthquake, flood, lightning, rain are something supernatural. My biggest point when trying to educate a theist is "In olden days people did not know how and why it rains, so they made up….". And you are here actually thinking the same. Do you know my 5 year old has a pretty good understanding of why it rains. Do you not go to school or what. You couldn’t be a Muslim girl in Taliban controlled area as you have access to internet. Better take some summer revision classes than spending time here.
6666 Base 8 on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Why is god blamed for some things but not others?
zaros104 on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Nope, only insurance I have is Car Insurance. However, most of American society is based off of religious teachings from Christianity, and our U.S. Constitution is some what based off of the Ten Commandments. Technically, Floods and Earthquakes are only considered acts of God by religious people, there for not having any religious meaning to a Atheist such as myself, or an Agnostic. Science has proven that Earthquakes are cause by plate movement under the earths crust and floods are cause by high waves (caused by earthquakes) or the moon being abnormally close and causing the tide to rise. If these causes have any connection to a all mighty being, has not yet been proved or disproved.
As a summary, everything has a different meaning, cause and effect, and result to different people.
JohnO on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Clever, wonder if the freedom from religion foundation will now sue to remove act of God from insurance policies?
Glee on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
It is a turn of phrase, not an actual act of a magic critter.
Or do you think your God amuses himself by killing families with floods, tornadoes and mudslides?
If you do, then why would you worship such a beast?
O'death on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Oh hahaha is this suppose to be clever?
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aowaowaow on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
How about a Joker Card, will be that enough?
bryan L on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Those are acts of nature, they are natural disasters, not God disasters.
Great Gazoo on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Nature isn’t god.
And no insurance company would write a policy that way. It would be a legal nightmare.
aaronmsl on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
They aren’t actually really considered "acts of God". Such phrasing is old fashioned, and in modern days of lots of lawyers itching for big payoffs from litigation, no insurance company in their right mind would write a policy containing such a loosely defined term.
If "act of God" is defined as meaning something along the lines of floods and earthquakes, this will be specified, or simply used in place of the meaningless term.
lawl. on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Are you trying to be clever? Those are acts of nature, not of a god.
eugendes on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Either they live on the coast or the San Andreas fault line… just joking. Stuff happens, since profanity is strictly frowned upon.
. on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
My insurance company has taken all references to God out of my insurance policy and replaced it with "ACTS of NATURE". They no longer refer to "ACTS of GOD" in their policies.
jeherohaku on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
those things are considered an act of nature, not of god.
Addi on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
"since these are considered an act of God."
Only by theists.
Wise Uncle Sol on June 29, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Dumb question, since most (if not all) insurance policies exclude coverage for acts of God.
Dumb answers, since most of these people don’t recognize that "acts of God" is the actual verbiage insurance policies utilize! It’s not a debate…it’s the way it is.