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Could The Virus Lead To A Spiritual Revival?
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'Something is stirring in the souls of millions presently under lockdown. The number of people searching for the word ‘prayer’ on Google ‘skyrocketed’ last month, doubling with every 80,000 new registered cases of coronavirus, according to a University of Copenhagen study. A Pew poll found that 55 per cent of Americans have prayed for an end to the pandemic. And no, it’s not only the Bible Belt: researchers reported that 15 per cent of those who ‘seldom or never pray’ and 24 per cent of those who do not belong to any religion have prayed about the virus.'
Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?
Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?
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"My reason for returning to the thread was not to convince anyone to change their thoughts about prayer but to voice an objection to the disgraceful comments from Deskdiary."
I've said it before, but I'll say it again.
There is an equal amount of proof in the existence of god (and therefore the power of prayer) as there is in the existence of leprachauns - none, zilch, nada, nothing.
Despite this, we're meant to accept AND respect the delusion.
If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns and demanded people believed and respected my belief, people, quite rightly, would question my sanity.
I see no difference between this and the belief in the existence of god.
This may upset the permanently righteous like mamalynne...but I couldn't possibly care any less if I tried.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again.
There is an equal amount of proof in the existence of god (and therefore the power of prayer) as there is in the existence of leprachauns - none, zilch, nada, nothing.
Despite this, we're meant to accept AND respect the delusion.
If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns and demanded people believed and respected my belief, people, quite rightly, would question my sanity.
I see no difference between this and the belief in the existence of god.
This may upset the permanently righteous like mamalynne...but I couldn't possibly care any less if I tried.
^^^If you can, but I suspect you cannot, try to consider the belief in god objectively. A belief in something where there is (a) no evidence, (b) no evidence, and (c) no evidence.
God is a construct dreamt up by people thousands of years ago, before science, to explain things they didn't understand...and yet amazingly, thousands of year later, people still believe in this absurdity.
Astonishing.
God is a construct dreamt up by people thousands of years ago, before science, to explain things they didn't understand...and yet amazingly, thousands of year later, people still believe in this absurdity.
Astonishing.
Tens of millions of people are members of a religion of some kind. Are you seriously comparing someone of faith to someone with mental illness, DD?
I don't have faith myself, but I don't belittle anyone who does. If anyone is suffering from some kind of delusionment, it's someone who begrudges strangers from having differing beliefs, even though they do not affect them in the slightest.
Learn some bloody acceptance Deskdiary.
I don't have faith myself, but I don't belittle anyone who does. If anyone is suffering from some kind of delusionment, it's someone who begrudges strangers from having differing beliefs, even though they do not affect them in the slightest.
Learn some bloody acceptance Deskdiary.
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