Prayer

[Catholic_Lady]

You obviously do not speak for all Christians. The pentecostals who comprise my nuclear family certainly do believe in magical responses from god. Food appearing, money, jobs, cancer "you foul demon begone".

So you would condemn all of Christianity because one branch acts in a way you would deem foolish?

Haven't you noticed? It's some people's favorite thing to do here.

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Incorrect. As usual. 

Honestly, you spew so much false information about Catholicism here. If you don't know anything about something, don't talk about it. It just makes you look dumb.

Can i just say (and I'm being honest) that you would carry more weight in these things if you actually tried to correct our false impressions, rather than simply telling us we're incorrect and leaving it at that.

What? The thing he is responding to and saying I'm wrong about is exactly what the correct answer is.

Here it is again, I suppose:

I don't think you understand how our beliefs work.

We don't believe in a God who is a wizard with a magic wand and who will make food appear out of thin air for the poor people we pray for. That's not really how it works. When we "pray for the poor," our hope is not for something supernatural, but for them to be granted some emotional strength to get through tough times... or for some sort of difference in the hearts of the people around them. For a walker-by to feel empathy and give food or offer a job, for example. Or for the poor person to find emotional peace while battling through.

...things like that.

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It's very frustrating when I've spent the last 8 pages trying to correct false impressions by explaining the same thing multiple times over, only to be told I'm not trying to correct false impressions lol. Perhaps the truth is some people don't *want* to have their false impressions corrected. They would rather keep thinking the worst because they have bigotry in their hearts and a chip on their shoulder. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what it seems like sometimes.