(August 21, 2013 at 12:04 pm)discipulus Wrote: I have no clue. Nor does it matter.
It matters to the McCanns. It matters to the thousands of thje faithful who prayed for the little girl's safe return. It matters to the police who have spent the years since her abduction chasing leads and actively searching for her. Ok they haven't found her either but at least they got off their arses and actually did their job.
Nice xtian attitude you have.
(August 21, 2013 at 12:04 pm)discipulus Wrote: Your argument is essentially this:
In order to say that prayer works, then every instance that a person asks for something, the petition must immediately be granted to them and if not, then this is proof that prayer does not work.
I will wait for you to support this obviously fallacious reasoning.
Well, since I didn't jump to the extreme of "every instance", the only fallacious reasoning evident there is based on a strawman. What I am asking for is one instance of verifiably answered prayer. That's all; just one. If two or three gathered in the godman's name with the faith of a mustard seed can move mountains, getting one little girl back to her parents safe and well after being petitioned by thousands of people - including the friggin' Pope - ought to be trivial.
There really is only one rational answer. All else is special pleading, which your next post to me is going to be filled with.
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.'
