TimT wrote:
God still loves you. I will be praying for you just as I am sure you are praying for me.
I think people treat God rather rudely, don't you? Asking with trillions and trillions of prayers everday, asking and pleading and begging for favours, "Do this", "Gimme that", "I need a new car", "I want a better job" and most of this praying takes place on Sunday, His day off. It's not nice and it's no way to treat a friend.
It's okay, pray for anything you want. Pray for anything but what about the Divine Plan? Remember that, the Divine Plan. A long ago, God made a Divine Plan, gave it a lot of thought, decided it was a good plan, put it into practice, and for billions and billions of years the Divine Plan has been doing just fine. Now, you come along and pray for something. Well, suppose the thing you want isn't in God's Divine Plan. What do you want Him to do, change His plan? Doesn't it seem a little arrogant? It's a Divine Plan. What's the use with being God if someone can come along and mess up your plan?
Here's something else, suppose your prayers aren't answered? What do you say, "Well, It's God's Will. Thy Will be done." Fine, but if it's God's Will, He's going to do what he wants to anyway, why bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me, why not skip the praying part and go straight to His Will?
If this offends you, please remember that you called skafather84 an idiot by use of fear-based correlation with a natural force that has no need for sacrifices or prayers, so I think the level of respect you have for him and his ways is more than enough justification for a little joke.