RE: Prayer?
August 4, 2012 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2012 at 7:20 pm by Cyberman.)
Ok, let's forget about our hypothetical little boy for a moment. Maybe he's just too small for a god to notice or bother with. Instead, let's pray for an end to all cancer; wipe cancer from the face of the planet. It would be trivial for an entity with the powers of a god; after all, mere human scientists have done just that with smallpox (apart from samples held in extremely secure storage, just in case). Just imagine the suffering that would be alleviated by ending a horrible disease like cancer. What would happen as a result of our prayer? And I'm not talking about praying for medical science to stumble upon a breakthrough, either; it's a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't thing I'm after. Is that the sort of prayer this god would listen to?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
