Please Pray for a child born into absurd privilege wealth and luxury?

[Warren Stupidity]

Or not. I think not. What do you think?

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	Why would anyone expend any effort at all on praying for a royal baby?
	0 (0%)
	I am obsessed with royals 'cause secretly I am one. In my dreams, anyway.
	0 (0%)
	I am praying that the monarchy is abolished, again, permanently this time.
	0 (0%)
	I stopped praying for nepal, this is much more important.
	1 (17%)
	I give up.
	0 (0%)
	I am praying for pie.
	5 (83%)
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[kdmorris]

1. Why???

Why the holy fuck, even if you ARE religious, would you pray for a child that has EVERYTHING? Why not pray for every single fucking child born in Afghanistan, because the infant mortality rate there is absurdly dismal. 70 out of every 1,000 children will die before they turn 1, and 97 out of every 1,000 will die before they turn 5. Life expectancy is 62 for women and 60 for men... about 25 years less than in a developed country.

Or pray for every child born in India or Bangladesh or any country in Africa or any other third world country... Why single out this one white privileged child that will NEVER want for anything and will just suck up the resources that COULD go to feed multitudes of others... just cause she got lucky enough to be born into a rich, white family and the whole world, for some insane reason, cares about it...

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Priorities you gotta have 'em.

And the Church of England has theirs.

[mountain grammy]

3. Oh, the absurdity!

[beam me up scottie]

4. Maybe one of you nice practicing atheists can teach me how to pray.

I must have played hooky the day they covered that in Batachism.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. For a very low down payment I can send you instructional videos every month!

Before long I guarantee that you will be praying you never met me.

[beam me up scottie]

6. Where do I send the money?

Stupid non-praying atheists, anybody can not pray.

I wanna be special too!

[kdmorris]

18. Prayer

prayer prer/ noun
noun: prayer; plural noun: prayers

a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship.

You've been led astray, darling.. atheists DO NOT PRAY!

[beam me up scottie]

19. Iswydt, dictionary fundamentalist.

Of course atheists can pray, words mean whatever we want them to mean.

[kdmorris]

20. Of course you are right

I'll just go pray that I can kick my pedantic addition to the actual meaning of words.

[beam me up scottie]

21. "It's the only way" said the atheist who prays.

I'm a poet and didn't even know it.

[kdmorris]

22. LOL!!! n/t

[olddots]

7. as Curley Howard once said

" my mother and your mother were both mothers "

Royalty and celebtity are so wierd .

[Solly Mack]

8. Well, yeah. A dragon might get them.

[onager]

9. Ha! Yeah, like this guy...

Posted because of this statue's location. Normally we associate St. George molesting a dragon with the British isles.

This statue is located at the Convent of St. George in Cairo, Egypt. In a 95% Muslim country, it's quite a sight to suddenly encounter.

The Convent is attached to the Coptic Church of St. George, which dates back to the 10th century. The Church itself is built virtually right on top of an ancient Roman military base, Fortress Babylonia.

A short walk from this church is the oldest mosque in Cairo, and the oldest Jewish synagogue in the city. So the whole neighborhood is like a shopping mall of bad ideas.

[Solly Mack]

10. Cool statue.

[mr blur]

11. Well I believe he was originally from Turkey. nt

[beam me up scottie]

12. Poor dragon.

I hope he ate plenty of royal babies before the end.

[Solly Mack]

13. You lover of dragons!

[opiate69]

14. What's not to love about dragons?!?!

[Solly Mack]

17. LOL! Funny!

[beam me up scottie]

15. Guilty!

I have to admit I love the "How to Train Your Dragon" movies.

Toothless reminds me of my first horse.

[Solly Mack]

16. Me, too.

I've always wanted one. A tiny one I could carry around and call Jasper.

[Lordquinton]

23. Because we'll never be royals

~Royals~

[skepticscott]

24. Well, wealth and privilege

don't guarantee happiness or a fulfilling life, especially when it means that everything you say and do is under scrutiny by millions of people and that you're being watched, photographed and hounded every single minute of your life that you're out in public. Her parents seem like decent people, but raising a child (or being a child) under those conditions carries difficulties that all the money in the world can't fix.

Even if prayer actually worked, sure, this kid is probably a lot less in need of it than most others. But their life ain't a guaranteed picnic.