Whats the point of #PrayforOklahoma or #PrayforBoston?

[The Reckoning]

yall must have a pointless life to spend your life trying to determine why it's pointless.

[Woo Bum-kon]

I know of so many cases where someone was heading down the wrong path before they found God, that experience turned their whole life around. How many times do we hear some athlete..."first I'd like to thank my savior...." How many churchs are here in the USA?

While I personally don't buy into the God of te Bible there is no doubt most people do and it really is a good thing. People need that hope in their life. To go around...bah humbug...nay!!!

False hope, to be honest. The people who pray for the victims of this tornado are deluded if they actually think they are helping. It's a placebo.

[Avante]

False hope, to be honest. The people who pray for the victims of this tornado are deluded if they actually think they are helping. It's a placebo.

Well I know some pretty intelligent/successful people who totally disagree with you. Do you really believe you're taling anyone out of anything?

[Woo Bum-kon]

Well I know some pretty intelligent/successful people who totally disagree with you. Do you really believe you're taling anyone out of anything?

Intelligence and success have no bearing on whether prayer works or not. Tests have been done on prayer. It simply doesn't work as anything other than a placebo.

[TheThinkingMan]

Intelligence and success have no bearing on whether prayer works or not. Tests have been done on prayer. It simply doesn't work as anything other than a placebo.

You don't really think a test on prayer exists do you!? Cannot be proven either way.

[Avante]

Intelligence and success have no bearing on whether prayer works or not. Tests have been done on prayer. It simply doesn't work as anything other than a placebo.

Do you have any idea how many prayers have been answered? I've had my prayers answered. I know a lot of others who have had their prayers answered also. Are you kidding me....tests? What tiny fraction of a fraction of a fraction was tested?

You are simply wasting your time Woo, I know a lot of people, those like you are not as happy in their life as those who do believe in something. Look at you right now chasing me around trying to convince me that some guy on the internet has the answer, come on Woo, why even bother? I prefer to have something, you prefer to have nothing.

[Woo Bum-kon]

You prefer to call nothing something.

An prove to me that your prayers were actually answered by a higher power.

[Avante]

You prefer to call nothing something.

An prove to me that your prayers were actually answered by a higher power.

The Doctors had given up on her, after all she was 88. She was my grandmother and I loved her dearly she helped raise me. So me and my sisters who all owed a lot to that old lady got together and had a group prayer. It was very emotional. She lived to be 99. And it was the very next day when we heard...."just over night she's taken a turn for the better"

Now I'm not going to even try to convince someone like you of anything, if you're happy living a life with no faith or hope in anything go for it. As we all know most people prefer to do it differently, they realize how unintelligent it is to waste other peoples time trying to justify why they are so miserable and confused.

Have a good day Woo.

[DoubtingThomas]

You prefer to call nothing something.

An prove to me that your prayers were actually answered by a higher power.

I understand how you feel but you cannot prove that prayers are NOT answered.

[Woo Bum-kon]

The Doctors had given up on her, after all she was 88. She was my grandmother and I loved her dearly she helped raise me. So me and my sisters who all owed a lot to that old lady got together and had a group prayer. It was very emotional. She lived to be 99. And it was the very next day when we heard...."just over night she's taken a turn for the better"

Now I'm not going to even try to convince someone like you of anything, if you're happy living a life with no faith or hope in anything go for it. As we all know most people prefer to do it differently, they realize how unintelligent it is to waste other peoples time trying to justify why they are so miserable and confused.

Have a good day Woo.

You are terrible at arguing. You are full of fallacies and assumptions. Lack of faith is not equivalent to lack of hope.

And I am not going to ask you how you know that God was responsible for your grandmother's recovery. Instead, I will ask you a much better question:

If your grandmother didn't recover--if your grandmother died--would you take that as proof that prayer doesn't work?

[Woo Bum-kon]

I understand how you feel but you cannot prove that prayers are NOT answered.

Can you prove that I am not a Martian, Mark (or Joe)?

[AussieFanKurt]

lol thinking a prayer coming true isn't coincidence

[DarrinS]

The kind of people to volunteer their help, to search for survivors, give people food, give people shelter, clean up debris, etc.

Probably not a huge group of atheists.

Just sayin

[DarrinS]

Also well known that religious people donate far more than anyone else.

[jag]

if something doesn't interest you or you don't believe in it, why spend so much energy on the subject???

it comes off as very bitter.

Yep. It's not enough for certain people to simply not believe in Christianity, they feel a genuine need to hate it. They operate under the guise of hating "religion." And although they may dislike religion, it's Christianity they truly hate. I've always found people like that to be very interesting. Only because it's not natural to despise something to that degree. There's a reason they feel so strongly about it.

[Rick Santorum]

Gotta give it to the old manthis time.

Avante has his moments here and there.

Lol you being a sexual jeebo

Avante is a ing idiot. If you need to believe in a fic ious man in the sky in order to have a reason to live you're a waste of air and should kill yourself.

trill is especially stupid for praying to the god plantation owners used to tame slaves

[DarrinS]

Lol you being a sexual jeebo

Avante is a ing idiot. If you need to believe in a fic ious man in the sky in order to have a reason to live you're a waste of air and should kill yourself.

trill is especially stupid for praying to the god plantation owners used to tame slaves

Lol. Evangelical Christians led the aboliltionist movement. History fail.

[Rick Santorum]

Lol. Evangelical Christians led the aboliltionist movement. History fail.

That's irrelevant to the fact the bible was a key tool plantation owners used to tame and indoctrinate slaves.

[Rick Santorum]

The kind of people to volunteer their help, to search for survivors, give people food, give people shelter, clean up debris, etc.

Probably not a huge group of atheists.

Just sayin

baseless stereotypes you learned from your pastor who steals 10% of his flocks' income

[DarrinS]

baseless stereotypes you learned from your pastor who steals 10% of his flocks' income

I don't attend any church. Fail

[Rick Santorum]

Yep. It's not enough for certain people to simply not believe in Christianity, they feel a genuine need to hate it. They operate under the guise of hating "religion." And although they may dislike religion, it's Christianity they truly hate. I've always found people like that to be very interesting. Only because it's not natural to despise something to that degree. There's a reason they feel so strongly about it.

If Islam was the religion that controlled America chances are it'd be the religion atheists target

[DisAsTerBot]

Yep. It's not enough for certain people to simply not believe in Christianity, they feel a genuine need to hate it. They operate under the guise of hating "religion." And although they may dislike religion, it's Christianity they truly hate. I've always found people like that to be very interesting. Only because it's not natural to despise something to that degree. There's a reason they feel so strongly about it.

most likely because all those people you are referring to are americans, where Christianity is the dominant and influential religion.
weird huh?

[Rick Santorum]

I don't attend any church.

going to

[Avante]

Lol you being a sexual jeebo

Avante is a ing idiot. If you need to believe in a fic ious man in the sky in order to have a reason to live you're a waste of air and should kill yourself.

trill is especially stupid for praying to the god plantation owners used to tame slaves

You mean me and the vast majority of humans who have lived on this earth are idiots....right?

To me an idiot is someone like you who is surrounded by churchs, religion and can't figure it out. You do realize you are in the minority, right?

[Woo Bum-kon]

You mean me and the vast majority of humans who have lived on this earth are idiots....right?

To me an idiot is someone like you who is surrounded by churchs, religion and can't figure it out. You do realize you are in the minority, right?

He's in the minority so he must be wrong!

God, you're a ing moron. A ten-year-old could defeat you in an argument.