Could The Virus Lead To A Spiritual Revival?

[Khandro]

'Something is stirring in the souls of millions presently under lockdown. The number of people searching for the word ‘prayer’ on Google ‘skyrocketed’ last month, doubling with every 80,000 new registered cases of coronavirus, according to a University of Copenhagen study. A Pew poll found that 55 per cent of Americans have prayed for an end to the pandemic. And no, it’s not only the Bible Belt: researchers reported that 15 per cent of those who ‘seldom or never pray’ and 24 per cent of those who do not belong to any religion have prayed about the virus.'

Have you prayed - even in the simplest of terms - for someone's health?

[Deskdiary]

"My reason for returning to the thread was not to convince anyone to change their thoughts about prayer but to voice an objection to the disgraceful comments from Deskdiary."

I've said it before, but I'll say it again.

There is an equal amount of proof in the existence of god (and therefore the power of prayer) as there is in the existence of leprachauns - none, zilch, nada, nothing.

Despite this, we're meant to accept AND respect the delusion.

If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns and demanded people believed and respected my belief, people, quite rightly, would question my sanity.

I see no difference between this and the belief in the existence of god.

This may upset the permanently righteous like mamalynne...but I couldn't possibly care any less if I tried.

[Mamyalynne]

I have no objection to your beliefs but I won't be called a deluded idiot without calling it out.

You may think of me as you will, you are nasty and rude.

[Deskdiary]

^^^If you can, but I suspect you cannot, try to consider the belief in god objectively. A belief in something where there is (a) no evidence, (b) no evidence, and (c) no evidence.

God is a construct dreamt up by people thousands of years ago, before science, to explain things they didn't understand...and yet amazingly, thousands of year later, people still believe in this absurdity.

Astonishing.

[Mamyalynne]

You have no idea what I do and don't believe.

[david small]

Afraid not. Too late.

[Deskdiary]

Nor do I care.

[Mozz71]

Tens of millions of people are members of a religion of some kind. Are you seriously comparing someone of faith to someone with mental illness, DD?

I don't have faith myself, but I don't belittle anyone who does. If anyone is suffering from some kind of delusionment, it's someone who begrudges strangers from having differing beliefs, even though they do not affect them in the slightest.

Learn some bloody acceptance Deskdiary.

[Deskdiary]

I can't Mozz. I wish I could, but I can't.

I object to the fact that the delusion in the existence of god (I refuse to use a capital G) pervades society. We have Lords Spiritual in the Lords for gawds sake.

I'll stop banging on about it when they stop expecting me to respect the delusion.

[Mozz71]

Why does someone's own personal belief affect your life in any way? Sure, it a believer drones on about it when you've asked them not to, they're fair game, but otherwise leave them be. We all have enough problems in our lives without making trouble when it's unnecessary.

[Mozz71]

I honestly find your viewpoint more bewildering than someone who believes in a God.

Still, I realise that I'm peeing in the wind here, so I'll leave you to it.

[andy-hughes]

Theland - // Most think prayer is like Satan telling Jesus to turn the stones into bread.
An instant miracle. //

What makes you think you know what 'most think'?

It's that fervent Christian superiority complex on show again!

[andy-hughes]

Theland - // Like I inferred,, prayer is not Aladdin's lamp, wishes granted etc //

Who are you to say what prayer is, or is not?

You're doing it again!!

[Mozz71]

//Who are you to say what prayer is, or is not?//

Who are you to question what a believer's definition of prayer is?

Maybe it's the usual suspects who are at it again?

[douglas9401]

Then I saw her face...........

[Mozz71]

Well played Doug, well played. :-P

[nailit]

Think its pretty obvious that prayer does nothing?
But if it makes believers happy?
Still does nothing though!

[douglas9401]

When it all shakes out, Mozz, we all came from Monkees.

[cassa333]

That’s possibly because all the believers have time on their hands and are searching for ways to connect with their chosen religion.

[nailit]

Believers, pray for my nephew to walk (He's a spina bifida) Might start to have a bit of faith....