OT : Prayer -- and other Comments

[Joy M]

No: HPFGUIDX 26069

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hermione" <hermione at p...> wrote:
> Dear Heavenly Father,

[snip]
 
> Please send this to all your friends and create a prayer chain 
throughout
> this nation.

Please don't ask me to pray with you.  I know that, in times like 
these, people take solace in their religion, and that brings them 
strength and hope.  That is a good thing, for them.  But I am not 
religious, and I never have been, and at times like these I am less 
inclined than ever to be so.  What kind of God do you all believe in 
so much that allows lunatics to murder thousands upon thousands of 
people?  The people who crashed those planes yesterday believed in 
God, believed so much that they sacrificed their own lives, and 
countless others, for His glory.  This tragedy has an all too human 
cause, born of our human greed and lack of concern about the terror 
and misery that exist in this world we have created.  Was your God 
trying to teach us a lesson about this?  If so, He probably won't be 
successful, since as far as I can see most people want to respond 
with more killing and hatred.  So, pray if it helps you, but, please 
don't expect me to join you.

--Joywitch