• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I suppose we could always just pray harder.

    I’m sure that’ll work… despite having done nothing to rectify anything in the past.

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        7 months ago

        Your god also demanded genocide on more than a few occasions. What has that got to praying cancer away until the cancer kills you?

        As for the efficacy of prayer… are you really going to sit here and tell me that praying about issues has ever done a lick of good, compared to working to resolve the issue?

        If prayer was effective at anything, don’t you think we’d have solved world peace by now? World hunger? Miracles would be dime a dozen. It’d be the cure for cancer.

        Or are you going to suggest we’re just not praying hard enough? (Well I’m not. Even if mythical sky daddy existed, I wouldn’t worship a being that gaslights the fuck out of people like that.)

        • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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          7 months ago

          The scripture doesnt tell people to just pray and sit by idly. It tells them to take action. So of course you dont pray cancer away, you go to a doctor and take proper medical treatment.

          You wrote four paragraphs projecting your assumption, when i already said the opposite of that in the comment you replied to.

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            7 months ago

            So do you thank God when the doctor fixes you, or do you thank the human who actually relied on science, and other existing, real philosophies, and sciences, to you know… Actually fix you?

            Prayer and God have no place in society. Have trust and faith in your fellow humans, and we may all actually stop hating each other one day.