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Originally Posted by moving target
Christianity:
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat fruit from a magical tree...
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Hockey goaltending:
The masochistic practice of strapping sharpened blades onto ones' feet, trying to remain mobile in environments clearly outside the design of human physiology, and purposefully hurling oneself in front of hardened projectiles moving in excess of 70 miles per hour with little or no regard to personal safety, while also knowingly subjecting oneself to jeering crowds and routine spearing and collisions, all to keep a tiny piece of rubber from touching a mesh of nylon...
You can do it with anything.
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And here's something else, another problem you might have: Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy Will Be Done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the **** bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His Will? It's all very confusing.
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This comes from a misconception of prayer.
Prayer is not to change the will of God at all. It's to ask for blessings He's already willing to grant, but must be asked for.
For example, ever ask your parents for something? Maybe to pass the salt? I wouldn't say that nullified their plans if they said yes. But if you hadn't asked, they wouldn't have given it to you, even if they knew you wanted it.
I can understand the logic of some of this fellow's ideas, but can you see how angry and condescending he sounds? I don't think that's a very good model to hold up, and if you find that tone resonating personally, you might wish to check your attitude.
~Brent