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Topic	People on my Facebook are praying for hurricane victims
Alexandra_Trent 09/10/17 12:07:04 PM #55:	Kyuubi4269 posted... Alexandra_Trent posted... It's an emotional way to reach out to people and their own personal attempt to help them in their own way. It's their personal way to reach out to the faceless mass representing good people they want to exist, to help the concept of good people being hurt. Everybody passively hopes that good people won't be hurt for no reason, it doesn't need saying and certainly doesn't make you a good person for not wanting people to pointlessly die for nothing. Alexandra_Trent posted... They can choose to just accept the gesture for what it really is: a kind and thoughtful gesture. Self-aggrandizing is very unchristian, to imply your wish should defend people you don't even know against God's will places far too much importance on God's several billion subjects. What they do is self-affirmation that there is a God who won't let good people like themselves die pointlessly like they fear. All their prayers are saying is "Only bad people will be killed by God's will and I'm a good person so if that ever happened to me, I shouldn't die!". What? No...As a Christian, I do not think this way at all! But anyway, I do undestand where you're coming from. Many use religion to further their agenda. And many are confused about their own religion or miss its true and core teachings. I'm not saying all Christians are this or that. What I'm saying is that prayers are just a hopeful wish (to the Almighty) that things be all right. No more and no less. Now if a Christian continues on and says that those who are unfortunate deserve what they get (because they are unbelievers) then that's wrong. I too am against people- religious zealots- who are very judgmental who think themselves the chosen ones and everyone else is unworthy. Subscribing to a religion does not make one worthy of God's grace or mercy. Only God can judge. Not us. Not me and not them. Prayers, as a sentiment, are a good thing. They mean no harm. :) --- "Ladies don't start fights, but they can finish them." -Marie, Aristocats <cite>Alexandra_Trent posted [p:886349890] in People on ... [t:75757125]...</cite> <quote><cite>Kyuubi4269 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Alexandra_Trent posted...</cite> <quote>It's an emotional way to reach out to people and their own personal attempt to help them in their own way. </quote> It's their personal way to reach out to the faceless mass representing good people they want to exist, to help the concept of good people being hurt. Everybody passively hopes that good people won't be hurt for no reason, it doesn't need saying and certainly doesn't make you a good person for not wanting people to pointlessly die for nothing. <cite>Alexandra_Trent posted...</cite> <quote>They can choose to just accept the gesture for what it really is: a kind and thoughtful gesture. </quote> Self-aggrandizing is very unchristian, to imply your wish should defend people you don't even know against God's will places far too much importance on God's several billion subjects. What they do is self-affirmation that there is a God who won't let good people like themselves die pointlessly like they fear. All their prayers are saying is "Only bad people will be killed by God's will and I'm a good person so if that ever happened to me, I shouldn't die!".</quote> What? No...As a Christian, I do not think this way at all! But anyway, I do undestand where you're coming from. Many use religion to further their agenda. And many are confused about their own religion or miss its true and core teachings. I'm not saying all Christians are this or that. What I'm saying is that prayers are just a hopeful wish (to the Almighty) that things be all right. No more and no less. Now if a Christian continues on and says that those who are unfortunate deserve what they get (because they are unbelievers) then that's wrong. I too am against people- religious zealots- who are very judgmental who think themselves the chosen ones and everyone else is unworthy. Subscribing to a religion does not make one worthy of God's grace or mercy. Only God can judge. Not us. Not me and not them. Prayers, as a sentiment, are a good thing. They mean no harm. :) --- "Ladies don't start fights, but they can finish them." -Marie, Aristocats</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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