https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-dare-the-gop-pray-for-texas-1510012040
As a Christian, I know that every prayer is answered. But the answers aren't always the ones we expect or want. While we pray for things we want, we realize that no is also an answer, even in life and death circumstances.
C. S. Lewis once said "Prayer doesn't change God, it changes me." What I realize in every prayer is how much more prayer I need, not how much God hasn't given me that I've asked for.
My first response to people denigrating prayer is outrage. But outrage isn't a fruitful response, and I find it followed quickly by sorrow at their spiritual impoverishment and need to feel powerful by pulling others down.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
I found some more Christian stupid at the Wall Street Journal. This asshole for Jeebus wrote about "spiritual impoverishment". The extreme stupid, it burns.
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