I find the whole concept of prayer to be really fucking offensive. If you get a promotion, it's because god helped, not because you worked hard. If you didn't get it, it's because you didn't pray hard enough. It's always that god gets the credit for anything good, and you get the credit for anything bad.
And when you move this into life and death issues (your child dies of leukemia while someone else's child goes into remission) is pretty fucking awful. If you say "God has answered our prayers and cured little Jimmy!" what the fuck kind of message is that for dead little Sally's parents? Sorry- you just didn't pray right, or hard enough, or something.
It's absolutely disgusting. And if it was all true, it would be even more disgusting.
And when you move this into life and death issues (your child dies of leukemia while someone else's child goes into remission) is pretty fucking awful. If you say "God has answered our prayers and cured little Jimmy!" what the fuck kind of message is that for dead little Sally's parents? Sorry- you just didn't pray right, or hard enough, or something.
It's absolutely disgusting. And if it was all true, it would be even more disgusting.
