Pray for me?

Oh My God!

Dear Lord, please save me from religious people praying.

Every time there’s some kind of disaster, social meeja like Facebork or Twitter is absolutely full of religious loonies, usually Christians, but other flavours of god-bothering also join in, telling us how they are saying their prayers for people they don’t know.

Let’s take those tornadoes in Oklahoma.  Tragically a lot of people were killed or maimed.

But, surely the culling of human beings by tornado was just part of “god’s plan“.  We are not supposed to understand or second guess why he decides to do such things, are we?  Indeed, to do so would be to challenge and question god‘s will rather than to just love him unconditionally, wouldn’t it?

No true believer challenges the word of god!

That being the case, why would anybody pray to the very divine being who has just decided to blow entire towns away?  Apart from anything, from his perspective, aren’t those doing the praying being more than a little annoying?  From a logical perspective, if he‘s in a shitty ‘smite’ mode, why would any rational person do anything to get themselves noticed?  Wouldn’t that be like warmly and enthusiastically waving at the man with the assault weapon who has randomly shot and killed dozens of people in a shopping mall?

It makes far more sense to keep one’s head down.

So, what are these prayers actually for?  What is their purpose?   What words are those prayers containing?  They are originating from Christians who don’t know those poor unfortunate humans their god has culled, so what are they saying?

If they are praying for their god to look after the people he just killed, why would he? He‘s already decided to sentence them to quite horrible deaths, so he‘s going to be sending them directly to hell rather than allow them to come and play with him in heaven anyway.  So praying for their well-being in the afterlife is pointless.

Maybe the prayers are really about the one doing the praying trying to say, “Please don’t kill me as well, please god!”  That being the case, then why pretend in public that the prayers are for dead people they’ve never met?

Praying makes no sense.  The constant buzz of the whines and moans of those who are asking for this asking for that, must be as annoying as the constant hum of a fly circling around and around.  No wonder he decides to randomly kill humans.  He must get so mad.

So, please never pray for me.  When your god then smites you for being so damn annoying, I wouldn’t like your death to be on my conscience.

Amen.