[HPforGrownups] Re: OT : Prayer -- and other Comments

[Hermione]

No: HPFGUIDX 26080

Look for all those who don't follow religion or go by a differnt religion
ignore it, but don't bit back at me because I wanted to send something
comforting to those who need it!!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy M" <joym999 at aol.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: OT : Prayer -- and other Comments


> --- 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
>
>
>
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