(October 14, 2013 at 3:03 pm)Raeven Wrote: Here's the thing I can never figure out about prayer. (It's probably been stated here a million times, but I'm new, too lazy to go find those other posts, so get off my back, ok??)
If your god is all knowing, all seeing, and everything happens for a reason™, then... isn't it sort of rude to pray? I mean, entreating your particular deity to see it your way and grant you a particular outcome for, oh, a speeding ticket or your football team to win -- or even something a little more significant to you, like saving a loved one from leukemia... aren't you being just a tad presumptuous?
And anyway, it never changes anything. People who pray v. people who don't have the same outcomes, statistically. Isn't that a bit suspicious? Or at least, a complete waste of your time?
I friend of mine posted on FB this week and I thought I'd share here:
"God can cure cancer. He can cure many sicknesses, but not missing limbs. At least not until the medical field finds a way to produce natural growing new limbs, then your god can take the credit for the miracle."
Let's keep on pretending. I love to role play
God is real (no he isn't). Pretending your god is real (but he isn't dammit), I decide to pray. The god knows that... say... my neighbor's house burned down and she needs money to start off a new life somewhere else. He knows it. He is sitting there watching it happen. He also knows I'm going to pray. He waits for me to do it. He also knows if he will respond or not. He knows why the house burned down, too, since he is the god. He allows everything to happen. So, if he knew the house would burn, and he knew I would pray, and he knows if he will help or not, why the fuck would I waste my time talking to him explaining what happened and the need in place? He fucking knows! If he wants me to ask before he acts upon it and he wants me to beg for the help (like people who fast and shit) then he is a baby.
Don't worry, though. He's not a baby, because he doesn't exist. Don't agree? Prove me wrong.
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
Half Baked
"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
