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Atheists & Agnostics

Croney

(4,926 posts) Sun Jan 28, 2018, 05:53 PM Jan 2018

So. You prayed, and she died anyway. [View all]

Today my extended Southern Baptist family mourns the death of a 76-year-old cousin I may have met once but don’t remember. For a month, the prayer chains have rattled across my Facebook feed faster than I could delete and hide. God can work a miracle! God heeds prayer! I’m praying! We’re all praying! Prayers going up! Prayers! Prayers!

And, she died. Because God wanted to bring her home. God saw that she’d suffered enough. She is reunited with her loved ones. She is happy at the right hand of the Lord.

But if she had recovered, it would have been proof that prayer works.

How did so many people become such idiots?

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So. You prayed, and she died anyway. [View all] Croney Jan 2018 OP

Witch dunking. Voltaire2 Jan 2018 #1

Ah yes. Same thing. Croney Jan 2018 #3

people can be made to believe anything Skittles Jan 2018 #2

And these very people voted for him. Croney Jan 2018 #4

so they wouldnt even recognize the good drs and nurses who would have saved her? samnsara Jan 2018 #5

Only by saying that God worked through them to bestow his miracle. Croney Jan 2018 #6

I served on a Hospital Board years ago SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #7

So, he didnt believe all medicine was an attempt to defy Gods will. Croney Jan 2018 #8

He used the religion card SCantiGOP Jan 2018 #9

There is a direct relationship with people believing stopbush Jan 2018 #10

When a tornado hits one house and skips the next... Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #11

so, if they truly believed in an afterlife what difference would it make if she lived or died? rurallib Jan 2018 #12

That's the kind of question they just won't answer. Mariana Jan 2018 #18

We're a countable number of generations removed from flinging poop Freelancer Jan 2018 #13

The same reason people believe the "flat earth theory"... BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #14

I can honestly say mountain grammy Jan 2018 #15

funny you should mention that Brainstormy Jan 2018 #16

It's still that way where I live now. Mariana Jan 2018 #19

When my husband was in Iraq Solly Mack Jan 2018 #17