RE: Stupid things religious people say
August 29, 2025 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2025 at 1:30 pm by Fake Messiah.)
People who think that prayer alone can not be used to solve real world's problems are insulting Christians.
Quote:Press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about comments from former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who were critical of those offering “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of the shooting, saying it wasn’t enough to keep children safe.
“I saw the comments of my predecessor, Ms. Psaki, and frankly I think they’re incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works,” Leavitt said at a briefing.
“It’s utterly disrespectful to deride the power of prayer in this country,” Leavitt added, saying she would encourage Psaki and others to pray for the affected families in Minnesota.
Psaki, who served for more than a year as press secretary in the Biden White House and now hosts an MSNBC show, posted on the social platform X that prayer “is not freaking enough.”
“Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school,” Psaki posted. “Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/5475612-psa...s-prayers/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
