RE: Still struggling.
February 14, 2016 at 4:08 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2016 at 4:10 am by robvalue.)
Regarding the unlikely prayer loot, consider that some 70% of the world is religious. There will be billions of prayers a day, for extremely unlikely events. Statistically, some of them are bound to happen. It just so happened to be you this time.
If it really was God answering the prayer (it wasn't) then that points to a rather cruel and callous God ignoring the pleas of starving people all over the world, in favour of an electronic bonus. Personally I don't worship anything, real or imaginary, I find the concept ridiculous. I wouldn't worship any kind of God even if it was shown to be real, and I certainly wouldn't worship a fucking monster who would act in this way, or that bears any resemblance to the Abrahamic gods.
The whole idea of prayer is so messed up, because if you're asking God to change his plan, you don't have confidence his plan is already perfect. I know you weren't being serious in your prayer, it's just a general point.
If it really was God answering the prayer (it wasn't) then that points to a rather cruel and callous God ignoring the pleas of starving people all over the world, in favour of an electronic bonus. Personally I don't worship anything, real or imaginary, I find the concept ridiculous. I wouldn't worship any kind of God even if it was shown to be real, and I certainly wouldn't worship a fucking monster who would act in this way, or that bears any resemblance to the Abrahamic gods.
The whole idea of prayer is so messed up, because if you're asking God to change his plan, you don't have confidence his plan is already perfect. I know you weren't being serious in your prayer, it's just a general point.
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