Teaching people they need to pray to God for things is to teach people that a God who could create the entire universe from nothing, by simply giving it a thought, is powerless to do anything in the world unless enough people pray for him to do it.
This is like Superman deciding he will only save Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen from some life threatening peril they managed to get themselves into, if enough people talk about what a "super" guy he really is, and specifically on behalf of Lois and Jimmy - since that is what it basically means to "pray" for someone.
And since people are all praying to God for different and often opposite things, religion sells humanity the idea that it is forever locked in am epic tug-of-war between good and evil, and God is the rope.
The only problem with this kind of thinking, however, is that the rope is suspended over a volcano. And with our denials and accusations, we only work to pull each other in.
As the saying goes, give people enough rope, and they'll eventually hang themselves with it.
This is like Superman deciding he will only save Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen from some life threatening peril they managed to get themselves into, if enough people talk about what a "super" guy he really is, and specifically on behalf of Lois and Jimmy - since that is what it basically means to "pray" for someone.
And since people are all praying to God for different and often opposite things, religion sells humanity the idea that it is forever locked in am epic tug-of-war between good and evil, and God is the rope.
The only problem with this kind of thinking, however, is that the rope is suspended over a volcano. And with our denials and accusations, we only work to pull each other in.
As the saying goes, give people enough rope, and they'll eventually hang themselves with it.
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