Whenever I hear we should pray for someone, I just tune out. I have no belief in the efficacy of prayer (except to affect the one praying).
Brad A. Greenberg says we should pray for Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett, who was hurt in a game Sunday.
Anonymous responds on Brad’s blog:
While you’re praying, will you tell God to save the rest of the billions of people on the planet whose injuries weren’t televised nationally and treated almost instantaneously with all the health care that a millionaire can garner?
I don’t understand how praying is supposed to work. Is the the number of people praying for this football star that will make him get better? Or the ernestness with which they pray?
Does a successful prayer mean that Kevin Everett gets to cut in line for miracles in front of an unknown child in Bangladesh?
Anyways, miracles always seem to happen to people with proper healthcare. Meanwhile the rest of the world suffers and dies.
God bless the whole world, but millionares and celebrities more than most.
And sorry for being bitchy about this. I just find the concept totally off. The same folks who will ignore medical science and say "prayer helped Kevin" will be the ones fighting against research to save others, fighting against healthcare for the poor and middle-class, fighting against science education, fighting against, well, everything that may ACTUALLY save Kevin.
Present company excepted, Brad. But excuse me for not getting why the most famous injured guy in the world doesn’t have enough prayers beseaching the Maker already, and maybe if folks have God’s Ear they could point it toward the rest of this suffering bastards on this planet.
Brad says we should pray for world peace.
