Let Us Pray?
Once again we were urged to pray for the people in the path of danger, this time Hurricane Laura. And again, I have to ask: really? Do those who do such urging ever think about what they are saying? Would an all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful deity really need to hear from us before deciding whether to keep people safe from Mother Nature, which after all is supposedly the deity's creation and fully under its control? No matter how hard I try, I can make no sense of this. Is the deity so narcissistic or whatever that it would let people die horrible deaths or suffer devastating damage unless lots of people pleaded for it not to happen? If that is the case, I would like to hear why this deity is worthy of adoration and worship.