Tomorrow, May 1st, is being promoted by Christians as the National Day of Prayer. So they all get together and pray for... what? It's hard to believe that nobody has ever prayed to end the war or feed all of the starving children or end poverty or rid the world of all suffering, etc. And if they have (and they surely have) and we still have all of these things (and we certainly do), then how the hell can they still believe prayer works?It's the same old thing. The Bible-God just can't lose! If Christians pray for something and they get it, they thank him for answering their prayers. And if the thing they prayed for doesn't happen, they excuse him with something like, "It wasn't God's will" or "God has his reasons." (I wonder what his reasons could be for allowing innocent children to suffer through sexual and physical abuse, starving, and disease.)
And if their god is going to do whatever the hell he wants to do anyway, then why the hell pray in the first place?
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Have you ever noticed how lame the results of answered prayer are? Often it's the kind of thing that might have happened by chance. Prayer is basically wishing for things to change without doing anything physically in the real world to bring about that change. What ever happened to "God helps those who help themselves...?
Okay, another common atheist misconception. We do not believe that God is just a great big santa in the sky. We don't just pray to him for the winning lottery ticket. We pray that in his sovereign wisdom, he could guide the world through these challenging times. Even if we did pray for hunger to end, we wouldn't expect it that next day, week, month, or year. We would expect that he would help those in need through his power. And that has happened, is happening, and will happen.
James 5:17 "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months."
So God stopped the rain for three and a half years because one guy prayed, but he can't end hunger? Which is a nobler cause?
Not to mention the fact that everything on earth would die if it didn't rain for 3-1/2 years. Plus, we understand a lot more about weather now (through science) and it doesn't rain or not rain all over the world at once.
What a ridiculous book you defend.
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