Just a little cherry on top of this old conversation. If you need prayer for something a lot of people will use that as an excuse to seem genuinely caring. Praying for someone doesn't absolve them from taking action though, and should be the first step in a genuine communication and relationship in someone's life.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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