Prayer not working

[Cyberman]

Is it so very necessary to have a knowledge of scripture to ask questions? How else can one learn anything? A more cynical person then I might get the impression that it's the asking of questions that is so feared by the theist, especially given the Olympic-standard gymnastics involved in evading them.

To ask responsible questions one needs to know something, and the questions asked by most here are cynical, most here are not interested in learning what the Christians here know.

Hmm. "Responsible" questions? Really? Isn't the whole point of questions to acquire information? That's generally how conversations work, one side offers information, the other side responds by expanding on that information, supplying further information or eliciting clarifications of the shared information in the form of questions. What, then, counts as an irresponsible question to you? My hypothetical cynic might say it is either one which you cannot answer but don't wish to admit it, or one for which the answer threatens uncomfortable, even dubiously defensible, implications for your position.

Basically, if you don't know the answer to what may, upon consideration, be difficult or uncomfortable questions, there's no shame in admitting it and in point of fact such an admission would be perfectly laudable, possibly earning you mucho kudos from what, in the context of these discussions, are traditionally your opponents.

Finally, by what criteria are you dismissing certain questions as cynical? They might have cynical motives behind them, I'll grant you that. However, bombastic posturing in lieu of answering them is playing straight into the hands of such questioners, not to mention playing up to common stereotypes.

I'll leave the irony of your final statement to the rest of the wolfpack. They don't get fed much, poor things.