If I pray to God to kill you, naturally He's not going to listen to my prayer!
If I don't pray in accordance to His will, of course He's not going to answer my prayers!
If your kids ask for stupid things, will you give them what they want?
If your kids ask for things that are good for them, wouldn't you always try to give what's good to them?
Do you understand now, how God is like a parent or you still wish to see God as a Genie in the Bottle?
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"If I don't pray in accordance to His will, of course He's not going to answer my prayers!"
"If I pray to God to kill you,"Yeah, that's the Christian thing to do.
"naturally He's not going to listen to my prayer!"
Yeah, beings who don't exist hardly ever listen.
"If I don't pray in accordance to His will, of course He's not going to answer my prayers!"
Then what's the point of praying?
"If your kids ask for stupid things, will you give them what they want?"
Probably not, but I'd be giving them a lesson about asking for stupid things.
"If your kids ask for things that are good for them, wouldn't you always try to give what's good to them?"
Of course. Your God has a very bad record in giving people what is good for them. Diseases, war and painfully stupid people spring to mind.
"Do you understand now, how God is like a parent or you still wish to see God as a Genie in the Bottle?"
I would like you to see ANY kind of god. Show me some evidence, Billi.
Perhaps if people were not brought up with the idea of God as Granter of Wishes, perhaps if the blatant manipulation of the "prosperity gospel" was stamped out, perhaps if more people lived by "God helps those who help themselves" (yes, I know it's Aesop, not the Bible), people would stop seeing God as a genie in a bottle. But then where would that leave Christianity?
Do you understand now, how God is like a parent or you still wish to see God as a Genie in the Bottle?"
" ... Do you understand now, how God is like a parent or you still wish to see God as a Genie in the Bottle?"
Our Father, who art in heaven, I beseech Thee to do what Thou wast going to do anyway.
Do you understand now, how God is like a parent or you still wish to see God as a Genie in the Bottle? image
Really. Fantastic parenting there.
So thousands praying for the starving children is just too stupid for your God to care about, right?
As Genies are often depicted as devious and vindictive I think it's an apt comparision to your God.
God's 'Omniscience ' rendering prayer pointless.
Annihilated your own religion much, Billi?
Now you realise why we're Atheists. Nothing FAILS like Prayer.
"Do you understand now, how God is like a parent"
Then you've just admitted that your so-called 'God' is the ultimate absentee father. At least my real father - who died when I was twelve - was actually there for me. Annihilated your own religion II, Billi? Now you realise why we're Atheists II.
...aw, c'mon, Billi, throw me a fricken bone here! [/Dr. Evil] I hate it when the fundies do my own job for me! Takes out all the intellectual challenge when they logically kerbstomp themselves & their own arguments into the dirt! (*grump *) >:(
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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