I found some more Christian stupid at the Wall Street Journal. This asshole for Jeebus wrote about "spiritual impoverishment". The extreme stupid, it burns.

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.