[Celyn]

Originally Posted by Binah

Why God Refuses to answer some people prayers.?
Because some (most of) people don't ask properly!!!

All right, now, let us please get this straight. About

"Because some (most of) people don't ask properly!!!"

are you saying, then, Binah, that people would not die of cancer or heart disease, or anything, and that they, or their nearest and dearest, would not die in car crashes, in floods, or, in countries less fortunate (or less exploited?) than this one, would not die young of malnutrition or starvation? Or bombs and guns, too. Little details like that, you know. No Holocaust, no Hiroshima, no plague, no Black Death, no starvation, no wars of religions, no killing of supposed "witches" and of "heretics" , no, nothing at all, if only people do what you tell them and "ask properly!!!" (Asking with excessive use of exclamation marks will put you in the bad books when I rule the world, I can tell you. )

Obviously all such things can be averted as long as you do what Binah says, and "ask properly". That would sort out other tiny wee details like AIDS too, would it? When the preachers of gods in Africa declaim against the use of condoms, thus causing death to many many people?

And, to return to my earlier post, upon which, Binah, I note that you have not bothered to comment, are you now telling us that the child Madeline Neumann would actually have lived if only her parents had asked their god "properly"? Well, well, if only they had prayed to "Binah" instead, as you so obviously know better than everyone.

No, they did not telephone a doctor, but they did ever so helpfully get in touch with other people to help them pray. So they did NOT fail to notice that their young child was ill, but they DID choose not to do anything useful like get the child to a doctor or a hospital.

They KNEW their young daughter was ill but CHOSE not to bother with a doctor or a hospital. You know, ways that could have actually helped. Nothing whatsoever to stop them getting proper medical attention for the poor child and ALSO praying, if it made them happy, but no. Hmmm. Lovely of them, wasn't it?

And it is clear that these people had no problem with the whole "modern technology" thing: they are happy enough with the internet, and I would hazard a guess that they are happy to use a car, and so on.

This is NOT the only case in recent years of a child being killed because of a mad superstition: it just happened to be an extremely recent example. The very recent new-worthy nature of it made me think that perhaps Binah would have noticed it and would have bothered to formulate a response, but it seems not.

Oh, and any response from Binah, I should rather prefer it to be in a vaguely comprehensible form please.

Really, I'm sure I enjoy a game of Scrabble as much as the next person, but not when a message board post seems to be made from the lovely random nonsense of a bunch of Scrabble letters.

AND, importantly, Binah, that there is a forum here on this message board that is for discussion of philosophy and religion does NOT mean it is for Spamming anyone's own theory. It is for sensible discussion and for debate.