Oh dear, you have left yourself wide open to some doozy questions!
Why do Christians, the Catholic faith in particular, put so emphasis on prayer when it so obviously doesn't work? Or do I lack an understanding of how it is supposed to work?
I prayed for a Lamborghini when I was a Christian. It never arrived!
There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of prayers ever having been answered.
While Hitler and his SS were killing so many people Christians the World over prayed for it to stop. It did stop eventually, after 12 to 14 million people had been killed because they were either Jewish, or homosexuals or had disabilities or were the wrong color. It stopped with Hitler's suicide. It didn't stop because of prayer.
A succession of Popes have prayed for World peace. It has never happened. The Pope is arguably the most pious Christian on the planet and held up as a direct connection to God. If the Pope's prayers don't get answered then what hope does anyone on the planet have of getting theirs answered?
Why do Christians, the Catholic faith in particular, put so emphasis on prayer when it so obviously doesn't work? Or do I lack an understanding of how it is supposed to work?
I prayed for a Lamborghini when I was a Christian. It never arrived!
There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of prayers ever having been answered.
While Hitler and his SS were killing so many people Christians the World over prayed for it to stop. It did stop eventually, after 12 to 14 million people had been killed because they were either Jewish, or homosexuals or had disabilities or were the wrong color. It stopped with Hitler's suicide. It didn't stop because of prayer.
A succession of Popes have prayed for World peace. It has never happened. The Pope is arguably the most pious Christian on the planet and held up as a direct connection to God. If the Pope's prayers don't get answered then what hope does anyone on the planet have of getting theirs answered?
