Prayer
Hmmph. This was eating at me all morning.
A coworker who just got back from her honeymoon mentioned that they'd had good weather for the wedding, and that everyone had been praying for it.
Ah, yes. Prayer.
"Almightly Lord of all creation, I know you chose not to avert 9/11, the flooding of New Orleans, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Bhopal disaster, the Oklahoma City bombing, or any of the other manmade or natural disasters that have beset mankind throughout history. You didn't cure smallpox, the Black Death, or AIDS. You didn't stop the Unabomber, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, or Jack the Ripper. Thousands of women are raped every day, and you don't prevent it. Thousands of children die of starvation and disease in the third world every day, and you don't prevent that either.
"Nevertheless, I feel confident that if my friends and I pray to you enough, you will ensure that the weather is fair on my wedding day."
And people say atheists are arrogant...
A coworker who just got back from her honeymoon mentioned that they'd had good weather for the wedding, and that everyone had been praying for it.
Ah, yes. Prayer.
"Almightly Lord of all creation, I know you chose not to avert 9/11, the flooding of New Orleans, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Bhopal disaster, the Oklahoma City bombing, or any of the other manmade or natural disasters that have beset mankind throughout history. You didn't cure smallpox, the Black Death, or AIDS. You didn't stop the Unabomber, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck, Charles Manson, or Jack the Ripper. Thousands of women are raped every day, and you don't prevent it. Thousands of children die of starvation and disease in the third world every day, and you don't prevent that either.
"Nevertheless, I feel confident that if my friends and I pray to you enough, you will ensure that the weather is fair on my wedding day."
And people say atheists are arrogant...