Quote:"what should I be praying for?"
That's a good question. Should they pray for their 'god' to reverse the events of the day so that it didn't happen? If it didn't happen then why would they be praying about it?
To bring the dead back to life and the maimed back to full health? That seems to be beyond 'god's' capabilities.
Taking it down a notch, maybe they want the injured to recover? Laudable but I prefer letting the doctors work instead of some shaman with a rosary instead of a rattle. Perhaps they are praying for the doctors? I have to think that if they don't know what they are doing by now me mumbling some garbage in the direction of some non-existent 'god' isn't going to be of much help.
No, M.H., at the end of the day prayers are simply the refuge of the helpless who cannot do anything useful.
