Paul Ryan Criticized over "Thoughts and Prayers" Comment

[FFaith]

What's wrong with offering thoughts and prayers?

The people who died were all Christian, obviously. If it brings any sense of peace or comfort to their families to be offered prayers, then why would anyone have a problem with it?

I agree with this for the most part. Being an atheist, of course I don't think the actual prayers are doing anything or even being heard, but the victim's families in cases like this say they are thankful for the thoughts and prayers, so who am I to tell them that they're wrong? I don't think the point of praying for victim's families is to prevent future events from happening. When Jeb Bush or someone says they're going to pray for rain or something like that, that's when I say WTF. Prayers for victims families don't bother me though. I think there's already too much gun control as is though, so you can probably chalk this up to me just being a heartless bastard