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June 20th, 2010
10:05 AM ET
Louisiana lawmakers declare day of prayer to stop oil disasterLouisiana's state senate has designated today a statewide day of prayer in response to the Gulf oil spill. "Thus far efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail," state Sen. Robert Adley said in a statement. "It is clearly time for a miracle for us." From the senate resolution:
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oil spills can really damage the environment so bad that it would take years to repair the damage:,'
oil spills should be controlled as soon as possible to prevent environmental damage*':
Actually, Tertullian, you prove the point. The people you mention bring about "blessings" through their ACTIONS. A bunch of politicians standing around looking religious, pimping the name of God for votes? That's the lowest of the low, and most posters see through the facade.
The caring ones are usually the ones helping: some of them pray, some of them don't.
You miss the point. Those praying usually are the ones helping. Check back in New Orleans and see who is still helping rebuild the city after Katrina...voluntarily...without governmental coercion or tax refund credits. I think you will find that the majority of these diligent, behind the scenes volunteers also find comfort, strength, and peace through the practice of prayer.
What a great test. If the spill does not stop, then that means there is no god and prayers do not work. Usually religious folks won't ask for prayer unless there is a good possibility the desired outcome is possible. There should be more public requests for prayer in situations where failure of prayer is almost certain, thus proving again there is no god.
I live in a country of nut-jobs.
Well I guess this really is the end of the world when people have completly lost thier minds so as to resort to complete insane ways to stop the leak....amazing just friggin amazing,but Im thinking the extreme muslums are OUT praying the Christians..maybe time to bring in Buddists back up
Lame Christian show business by the legislature.
Mind you, if the voters keep buying it, I can't blame them for going on selling.
The resolution itself is fine, I guess.
The commentary surrounding it is incredibly dorky.
What a waste. Sure is easier than actually doing something though, ain't it?
Yes, that's the point. Incredible, really. These people actually went through the process of voting on this, expecting results no less. They could, alternatively, grab a shovel or donate money, but no; this will aid the process. I'm moving to Europe.
This option just barely passed their 2nd option of logical things that will help: rowing a boat into the middle of the gulf with a rolled up newspaper to smack the oil spill and tell it that it's been bad.
A totally useless (and rankly embarrassing) exercise.
How any grown reasonably intelligent adult would give any credence to the "power of prayer" is amazing to me.
In ANY other aspect of our lives this silliness would have been discredited centuries ago.
With prayer we ONLY gets "evaluated" when it "works".
ALL the times it fails (the majority of the time) religious folks just shrug & say : "god's will"!
Imagine if medicine, law, engineering, and science worked that way!
No need to imagine, it was the dark ages.
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer." ~Author Unknown
PRAYER. How to do nothing and still think you're helping.
Just pray today.
Philosophy on Life according to MC Hammer
Reality, your comment stating that a caring God would not let bad things happen just shows your ignorance and inability to see beyond your narrow, limited, human understanding of the nature of the universe. There is Fate, and there is Free Will. They are in perfect balance and cannot exist apart from each other. I have a certain "Fate". However although I am "set up" do the things I will do, I still have to make a choice. Now proponents of solely Fate say that they were and are not choices because I was highly influenced, pushed, and manipulated into making those choices. Certain things happened and didnt happen in my life so that I would make the preferred choice. All that being said, I still had to make a choice. Fate and Free will exist. and they are in perfect harmony and balance.
Why only pray when things go bad? Why not pray ALL the time to prevent bad things from happening brfore they happen? Because pray is a useless exercise that does absolutely nothing! I pray for the day when grown people will realise this!
Oh, nonsense. This is akin to the silliness of "the flap of a butterfly's wings on one side of the globe results in a typhoon on the other side". There is nothing deep about life's vagaries. Things happen by chance all the time and there is no hand on some invisible steering wheel that controls all.
Pray for advances in battery technology. Pray for better solar, radiation collecting panels. Pray for whirled peas.
It is all for naught. This is a man made problem that needs a man made solution.
Sheetiron,
Once again as per the famous contemporay theogian, Edward Schillebeeckx:
Christians (et al) must give up a perverse, unhealthy and inhuman doctrine of predestination without in so doing making God the great scapegoat of history."
"Nothing is determined in advance: in nature there is chance and determinism; in the world of human activity there is possibility of free choices. Therefore the historical future is not known even to God, otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the strings.
For God, too, history is an adventure, an open history for and of men and women."
i.e. No one, not even God (if there is one) can prophesy since that would violate the God-given/natural gifts of Free Will and Future.
good luck with that.
Oops, make that Louisiana.
Why a day of prayer in Loiusiana or any place else does not work and never will?
If there were an interacting, all-knowing, all-caring god, the spill (hurricane, tornado, disease, accident) would not have happened to begin with.
Once again in the words of the famous, contemporary theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx:
"Christians (et al) must give up a perverse, unhealthy and inhuman doctrine of predestination without in so doing making God the great scapegoat of history."
"Nothing is determined in advance: in nature there is chance and determinism; in the world of human activity there is possibility of free choices. Therefore the historical future is not known even to God, otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the strings.
For God, too, history is an adventure, an open history for and of men and women."
(Assuming there even is a god.)