['My husband and I gave money to the Red Cross, but it just seems so insignificant right now Praying, praying, praying.']
Your prayers are worth far more than all the money you can give.
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Nobody can eat, wear, drink or answer your prayer.
Besides, if god was going to intervene I would think he would've stopped the hurricane to begin with.
"... your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." (Matthew 6:7-8)
Prayer is for yourself not for God to hear. He already knows what to do so stfu and do something more useful.
One pair of hands working is worth more then 1000 pairs clasped in prayer.
All my observations of the word have proven to me that nothing gets done unless somebody does it, praying does nothing.
A couple of years ago I took our son to midnight mass (that's protestant high church mass, not catholic mass) on xmas eve. No, we're not xian - I was, nominally, as a youngster because that's the way things were back then, but I became an atheist after a) deciding that the cult is a crutch for those who don't have the gumption to take responsibility for their own lives and b) reading the babble. However, I wanted our son to see what it was all about...
The vicar (a woman) expressed just this sentiment in her sermon, saying that our prayers were worth far more to the suffering in Africa than any other help anyone might give.
I wanted to slap her, hard. My son (now 13) was also disgusted, and now wants nothing to do with any religion.
These people dig their own graves, don't they? It's almost as thought they don't want to persuade anyone to join them.
Meh.
Glurge-y, but not really fundie.
And isn't there something in the Bible about it being worthless to tell a starving man "Go with God" but giving him no food or drink?
Give a starving man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.
Give a starving man a prayer, and he'll call you a cunt
Cheaper too. Why, it's like doing nothing, since we pray for ourselves constantly anyway and God always listens to me. Gosh, I'm so wore out saving everybody, I need some cake!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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