WOTMQ: The Utter Failure Of Prayer
Believers will tell you story after story of how God answered their prayers. But for every prayed God answered, there and hundreds or thousands of prayers that went straight to voicemail. In this video, I give three examples, ranging from the very personal to the global.
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Don't forget the 27 million Russians or the 35 million Chinese, who were also murdered during World War II . . I'll bet most of them prayed like cRaZy . . .
Brian - Heartbreaking story re. the couple w triplets, but makes your point so well. Glad they finally realized the true nature of their god: non-existent.
It's easily the most horrible thing I've experienced which didn't "happen to me." Trying to comfort them and be there for them after the first baby died was beyond difficult. After the third... impossible? Truly one of the worst experiences of my life. The sadness was absolutely overwhelming.
"confirmation bias"! Yeah, that's what I was trying to think of.
Yup. It really is just sad. Just like the people who still are with trump.
The ego of those who assert that gawd hears and answers THEIR prayers can only be matched by King Algae’s. I love how Tim Minchin hits that nail on the head because Mr. Deity cured the cataracts of “Sam’s Mom”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeWPScnolo
Great song! He has to be a huge fan of Gilbert O'Sullivan. I had the chance to ask him and it completely slipped my mind. I've hated myself ever since!
Reminds me of an old joke. A devout Christian has a withered arm. Every night he kneels down to pray, “Oh lord, dear lord, Mr. God, please, make my arm as good as my other arm. Every night he makes this heartfelt plea. Finally, he hears god’s voice saying, “OK, you got it! Then he had two withered arms…
Suppose the universe has a creator. To him/her/it, our entire galaxy (one of trillions) is a tiny speck of dust. Our solar system of one of hundreds of billions in this galaxy alone. And this is one of eight planets orbiting a fairly average star. We are one of millions of living species on this earth. There have been countless millions of others during the planet's four billion years of existence. So to this creator being, we are like a clump of bacteria living in the ocean next to that pier in the photo. Why should that being care about us?
It really is stupid, isn't it?