Nov 20, 2023
"If God will provide, the church wouldn't need a collection plate."
Every church knows prayer doesn't work. The game is keeping the congregation from noticing.
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"If God will provide, the church wouldn't need a collection plate."
Every church knows prayer doesn't work. The game is keeping the congregation from noticing.
If prayer alone doesn’t keep your church open, you must have the wrong god.
Anybody? Anyone?
I briefly contemplated living life according to Jediism that day, but that was probably a coincidence.
Apparently they’re not able to convince their god to actually reveal itself, unequivocally and undeniably - or maybe they never even tried - so they resorted to asking it to just magically brainwash people.
It seems all they've really done is undertaken a scientific experiment to determine if prayer works, and proven that it doesn't.
But it's hard to get away from the conclusion that their god doesn't actually like them - there's a theory of the "holy books" being a gullibility test that only non-believers will pass - isn't their god, or isn't there at all.
There are 3 Things Christians should stop saying. "Prayer works" is one of them, and here's why Christians should stop saying it...
"Oh, I feel so blessed! My prayers have been answered!"
No, God didn’t tell you to harrass me
Why is it the so many Christians who are so “spiritual” and talk about being in touch with the “Holy Spirit’s guidance” end up asserting themselves on my personal life in the most insensitive and entitled ways?
Why is it that it’s so, so predictable, that every time someone has a “word from god” it is both incredibly invasive and in some way limits my freedom and directly undermines my own perception and intuition?
Why is it that “warnings from God” and “admonitions” often sound quite like personal threats and ultimatums from the people who are offering them?
Why is that when some Christians encourage you, it always has to be a “word from the Lord” and why does it almost always belie their belief that they-- and YOU-- are NOTHING without god, even when you have been just fine without God for so many years?
Why are many Christians who admonish you to forgive some of the least forgiving people, and why do they never ask for your abusers to beg God for forgiveness themselves?
Why do Christians only caution other Christians to use “discernment” if they are questioning their faith, but not when they are questioning the mortal, fallible pastor in the pulpit?
Prayer doesn't amount to a (can) of beans.
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Curses! Foiled Again!
A headline on Twitter caught my eye this morning. No, it wasn’t about a signal from a possibly advanced alien civilization (though, how cool would that be?!)
It was a post on The Friendly Atheist raising questions about a young man possibly cured of Cerebral Palsy at a Christian conference.
It’s not unusual, in fact I’d say it’s downright required, for claims of this nature to be made at Christian conferences. I went to quite a few in my day and all of them had at least one claimed miracle. But what often gets swept under the rug in instances like this are the times that people aren’t cured.
The line from the Friendly Atheist blog where the person reporting the claim says they didn’t take video because they “didn’t know it would happen for sure” is telling. Because every time a person is not cured or healed of their affliction through prayer and the laying on of hands they are told that they, or the person praying, or someone in the room didn’t “have enough faith”. Isn’t not being sure if the miracle will take place a textbook lack of faith? And yet it still, allegedly, happened. Does God heal on the curve? Is there a faith scale we are not privy to, yet upon which prayers are measured?
And why is this being trumpeted on the Facebook post of some rando conference attendee and not, like, the news? This would be bigger than the alien radio signal if confirmed true.
I call horseshit on the whole spectacle.