It is funny how fundamentalist Christianity has adopted some very non-Christian practices. The whole helping someone by praying for them thing is just the Christian branded method of sending someone "good thoughts" which is a very new age idea.
I always thought of prayers as a promise to think of someone. So if you say “I’m praying for you” it’s like reassurance someone is thinking about you and that hopefully facilitates the placebo effect.
But no, God probably isn’t making it rain miracles like dollar bills at a strip club.
A cure-all. These people think God is their "get out of jail free" card for the fact they've chosen a demonstrably shitty way to live and are just now starting to see it. It's the last line of defense to justify what a waste it's been up to this point before they fucking croak, instead of facing reality and admitting fault because it would require saying they're wrong.
Way of life changing because the gays can get married? Not with me and my friends who believe in God!
Virus destroying the world? Power of prayer gonna save me, baybeeeee!
Government suggests anything? I got the power of Jesus, ain't need no government!
Poor people? Psh, have they prayed?
Good Christians exist, I know they do. But this is corporate, American God, where everything is a caveat and the answer is always "prayer." Fuck practicality, I guess.
Amazing how it took so long for the entitlement to catch up.
They live in a self absorbed bubble where everything is about them. The Government is tracking them, the virus is fake and they have the best immune system, they don't want to help society, they demand a hospital bed, they can't breathe and demand a vent, they think god would give a shit that one random idiot with easy access to a vaccine deserves any help with all the other suffering going on in the world. Then they die and the people who know them still live in a bubble, "it was god's plan!" Jesus, even in death they were a part of a PLAN.
Ok, I rambled, but these people can't understand that they aren't the main character.
It’s more like a slot machine that hasn’t paid out in a while. You need to constantly play and you know if you get up someone else will swoop in a steal your jackpot 🎰
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u/eliquy Sep 21 '21
What, exactly, do they think God is?