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WindWalker12
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since 2009-10-17

Posts 57

0 posted 2009-12-03 12:20 PM

When You Pray, God Works

A church billboard proclaims:
“When You Pray God Works”

Two reasons to call such a claim as false:

the first, and obvious, is stated clearly in their Bible,
that their God
(and they're so quick to remind you theirs is the only One)
completed all of his works, in all their vast array,
on the sixth day of creation, declared it good,
and on the seventh day rested from all of his labors.

One would think that even ignorant preachers
would know this much from their procedural manual,
and their CEO: that he took early and permanent
retirement and that is that, according to the book.
The second, perhaps most poignant,
and most disturbing reason would be this:
that billions pray, every day, several times a day,
all of them to this One and Only almighty God
who promised to heed the prayers of the faithful,
and what do we see? A world so lost;
a world as much in demonic perdition;
abandoned, given over, enslaved to greed
as any science-fiction world ever described;
a world wherein licentiousness and murder are thought virtuous;
a world every day closer to becoming a garbage dump
and no improvements in sight——
this is how God works?

Or perhaps it's time God's followers realized
their God has at the very least an inkling of intelligence
and has become utterly fed up with mere lip service?
Their book talks of self-sacrifice to gain sanctification:
apart from some crazed suicide bomber,
where is the evidence of such?

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

1 posted 2009-12-03 08:20 PM

It is a very contraversial subject Wind Walker but it does evoke a lot of thought.
All I can say is that religion causes more
mayhem, murder and maltreatment to the human race than anything else on earth. I believe in God, but I'm quite sure that he doesn't approve of all the violence that is commited in his name. Take care

Lindsay

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

2 posted 2009-12-04 12:37 PM

You wrote it and a lot of people are thinking it. Sad, but we see it all around us, the deterioration of life as we once knew it. How sad. We need hope and hard work to change it back......latearrival

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