There's Only One Way To Stop The Gulf Oil Spill: PRAYER

That's right. Let's suspend all scientific efforts to solve the problem and give the religious their chance to show just how powerful their god is! Let's all pray for a miracle! That's the ticket! Who ya gonna trust, god almighty or some scientific "fix it theory" that's only a theory?

Time to put up or shut up. Either god can fix this by fulfilling his "ask and you shall receive" dogma...or he can't (and considering that ol' Yahweh couldn't defeat the Canaanites because they had chariots of iron in the OT, my money's on "he can't fix this").

I'm sure his take on this would have been most enlightening (although he never mentioned Katrina)

something a little less important?

It's how they accept everything and still retain all their faith.

What are we really losing Texas coast, Louisiana, Mississippi who cares. These are the people that don't want any government in their pathetic lives so lets just stand back and let the market forces handle it.

so this obviously was god's will to fulfill medieval apocalyptic artistic fantasies.

The use of oil booms is a scientific exercise. The idea of placing a dome over the leak is a scientifically based solution. If one isn't aware of the scientific principles of what happens to oil in the open ocean then any solution offered will be folly.

But a person must also walk through the doors when they are opened.


I think God helps to show the paths, and protects people in there weaknesses, so that they can find the way that is his will, in my belief life with peace and truth, love and joy.

Why can't you pray while you do something else!! Give me a break.

So let's go this route... Pray... Now are the advocates of this course of action in the path of this mess? And if this is god's will as some will invariably say, what is his message? Stop drilling oil and wrecking my earth? That can't be it, right!!!

But I'd be amazed if there aren't pastors out there seriously telling their congregations that prayer is indeed the only solution to this problem.

Of course when the prayers fail to stop the oil, the gymnastics of rationaliztion will begin ("god is testing our faith").

I feel bad for all the humans (and perhaps more so the critters) affected by this, but god didn't have jack shit to do with it. And he ain't going to lift a heavenly finger to stop it.

Involving the deity is just another way of deflecting culpability away from those who caused this disaster.

I live in suburban Atlanta, and I've actually heard people saying that prayer is the only solution that will solve this crisis.

... people have been praying for peace since time began

As long as those two hands clapsed in prayer are also working to clean up the spill, I have no problem ....

Maybe with some "preventative" and "maintenance" praying, this wouldn't have happened in the first place!

I don't think god really gives a damn about what us earthlings are doing or how disasters affect us. I am amused at those who say it's a miracle when one person lives through a plane crash that kills 300 people. They go on and on about it being a miracle, but by saying that they admit that God knew about the plane crash and decided to save just one person. And since God knew the plane was going to crash it makes him a premeditated murderer of 300 people. But all people can do is praise him for saving the one person, while allowing the rest to die hideously.

Declaring anything a 'miracle' is an admittance that God was at the site of the 'miracle'. So if he was there he could have prevented the crash and saved all people on board. I have long thought that if God was an earthy figure he would be thrown in prison for being an absent, neglectful or abusive father. If a man allowed his children to die, knowing he could have saved them, he would be thrown in prison for life.

Anyway, that's my take on most miracles.

Enquiring minds want to know!