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submitted 2 months ago by Kintarian@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

My mom has a list of prayers that she claims were answered by God. As I look at that list I noticed that I did most of those things. When I mention that she says, God works through people. If I have to do all the work what do I need God for?

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[-] degen@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Well, no, but it's more about the thought, as long as they're actually supportive otherwise. I won't ask her not to pray for me.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Prayer is easy. Solutions are hard.

Actually, I’m pretty sure there’s a few throw-away-lines in their book about that.

If Christians stopped praying school shootings and started doing something about, we’d have a lot less school shootings. Same too for child hunger. Homelessness. Virtually every social issue you can name.

(And remember, the whole point of tithing is because the temple was the original welfare… it was not so snake oil salesmen could have new-model private jets.)

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