GodAnon

Many of our religious friends believe that a god answers prayers. But which ones ( prayers)? It seems that the prayers of amputees are just not important enough. Cancer? Sure. Arthritis? Sure. Lower back pain? Sure. See, amputation regrowth would be VERY impressive - and require something to actually happen. It would be indisputable. Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

New Palestine church documents 10,000 "answered" prayers A church in New Palestine believes a god answers prayer. Brookville Road Community Church believes a god answered over 10,000 prayers in their congregation last year during a year-long theme at the church called "10,000 answered prayers." Up to 1,000 people attend Brookville Road Community Church each weekend. They turned in cards for 10,581 answered prayers in 2017. "We had people say, 'My cancer is gone.' People got jobs when they've been praying for jobs, praying for years. We had people that had been praying for relationships to be restored for years and years finally be restored. All of those are miracles that we attribute to our heavenly Father." When a god does not respond: the god answered prayer. When the OPPOSITE happens: the god answered prayer. When is a prayer NOT answered? This is playing tennis without a net or out-of-bounds-mark. Of course, we don...

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in an interview Monday November 6, 2017 defended his tweeted opinion that Texas shooting victims “need our prayers,” and that, “prayer works.” “It’s disappointing. It’s sad, and this is what you’ll get from the far secular left. People who do not have faith, don’t understand faith, I guess I’d have to say,” Ryan told Laura Ingraham on  Fox News’s  “The Ingraham Angle.”  “Reports out of Texas are devastating,” Ryan wrote on Twitter. “The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now.” Of course, Speaker Ryan offered no explanation of how prayers "work" or how anybody could possibly know that.