Prayer is what you do when you can't or won't do anything better.
So many of these two-faced sons of bitches in the government are saying "Keep the victims of the San Bernadino shooting in your prayers." Well that's nice and all, but first of all, talk is cheap and all these assholes are getting money from the NRA, so you know they don’t actually give fuck one about any of the San Bernadino shooting victims or their family, they just want you to think they do.
Secondly, what do dead people need prayers for? They're beyond the need of any prayers. Pray for the survivors, but the victims don't fucking care anymore. Either they're snuffed out like candle flames and thus no longer exist to care, or they're in the Great Beyond, in which case they - again - do not fucking care.
And third, what good is prayer anyway? Get up off your fucking knees and do something fucking constructive. Protest the NRA, steal their money, melt guns down into plows, combat the social bullshit that causes these shootings to begin with, start rounding up a list of gun owners who own more than one or two guns and put their names on a "potential terrorists" watchlist, or something else constructive. God best helps those who help themselves, and Jesus said to help one another. Prayer helps nobody and does absolutely nothing but make you feel a little less guilty about not doing anything fucking constructive. Action is the most powerful magick, and action is the most powerful prayer. So get up off your knees and DO something!
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Secondly, what do dead people need prayers for? They're beyond the need of any prayers. Pray for the survivors, but the victims don't fucking care anymore. Either they're snuffed out like candle flames and thus no longer exist to care, or they're in the Great Beyond, in which case they - again - do not fucking care.
And third, what good is prayer anyway? Get up off your fucking knees and do something fucking constructive. Protest the NRA, steal their money, melt guns down into plows, combat the social bullshit that causes these shootings to begin with, start rounding up a list of gun owners who own more than one or two guns and put their names on a "potential terrorists" watchlist, or something else constructive. God best helps those who help themselves, and Jesus said to help one another. Prayer helps nobody and does absolutely nothing but make you feel a little less guilty about not doing anything fucking constructive. Action is the most powerful magick, and action is the most powerful prayer. So get up off your knees and DO something!
This was cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/245762.html
You can comment either here or there.