Bugs Bunny

[J a c k]

I believe if you are open God can show you Himself too.

I was an open and active believer my whole life until I was about 25, but never gained a shred of personal evidence for all of it. Now what?

Me too! Also lost faith around the same age.

Sorry, dude. The whole prayer thing is a scam. Sad as it sounds, it's a scam. Think about iit.
East and North Africa haven't  had a good harvest in about three years. This has caused more than 200,000 people to starve to death. Now you can pray for them. Let's suppose the drought is healed after you pray, coincidentally. You can claim it was due to your prayers if you like, but does that mean your god allowed more than 200,000 people to die of starvation because you didn't pray in time?

Let's take it to a smaller scale. My little ol" town is shaken right now because there was a three car collision recently that took the life of a woman and left her ten month old baby in critical condition at the hospital. A 17 year old girl was on her cellphone and caused this accident. One of the injured people was my coworker. She fractured her back and hasn't been walking since. Her whole family prayed for her. She's alive! Broken, but alive. I have several protests to her family's claims "God is good all the time and all the time god is good". They're suggesting he saved her life. Why couldn't he save her in one piece? Ya know, do the favor in whole while he's at it. Also, why save her and not the other woman? Is my coworker more important? Did the other woman not have enough prayers on her side? Ah, there's a reason for everything and the god works in mysterious ways.

Then... why pray? If he already knows his plan and whether or not he'll do the thing or not, why bother?

Is all.