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⌈ Secret Post #2241 ⌋

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Comments

Re: "It offends me when people say they'll pray for me" (redux)

[citrinesunset]

I'm not religious anymore, but having people say they pray for me bothers me for reasons other than the standard "they're trying to push their faith on me" one.

After my father died, it made me think a lot about prayer and what I believed regarding divine intervention. I ended up coming to the conclusion that I'm not comfortable with the idea of an interventionist god that answers prayers sometimes, but not always. I don't like the idea that something good could happen to me only because someone with enough faith prayed for me and the prayer was answered, with the implication being that if I hadn't been prayed for, then God may not have intervened. I have nothing against people who do believe in prayer and see it as a good thing. But it's not an idea that I find comforting.

That said, I wouldn't object to someone who offered to pray for me out of kindness. I know it's often meant as a nice gesture. Though, there have also been times when I felt like someone was going too far with it. There's a fine line between trying to be nice, and pushing your religious beliefs on someone.

Re: "It offends me when people say they'll pray for me" (redux)

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same thoughts, too, but most people never seem to get this far with the logic. Like... you pray because you think it works and that sometimes God will answer your prayers, so you give credit to God when good things happen. But when bad things happen, that's not his fault? Or worse, when bad things happen, they happen because God wants it to be that way? That seems like an extraordinarily cruel thing to believe.

I don't know. I've seen good, super-religious people lose their kids in an awful accident and it just tore them apart. But! They didn't lose faith. Somehow they needed to believe that all the pain they felt was for a good reason. I know people need something to cling to in bad times. I just don't understand why they choose to cling to a god that causes or allows suffering to happen to good people who've never done anything to deserve it-- or to innocent children who don't deserve to die.

If God and religion is supposed to be a comfort, how is that at all comforting? I think it's the scariest thing I've ever heard.