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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: It's fun watching God answer prayers ---
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 23:03:17 EST
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>>	A very close friend of mine's parents just went through a traumatic
>>divorce. He prayed that both of them would continue their lives hereafter in
>>a peaceful way, and find happiness in their separation. (He had been praying
>>for them not to separate and then not to divorce for some time previous to
>>this.) He also prayed that additional tragedy not befall their family.
>>What has followed has been a bitter custody fight for the one child still
>>living with his parents, severe problems with his sister's pregnancy, and his
>>younger brother was in a severe accident owing to drinking while driving, and
>>must (at the order of a judge) quit school in order to enter an alcohol
>>rehabilitation program. (He HAD been a model student for many years.)
>> 	This is how God answers prayers.  [PAUL ZIMMERMAN]

> God does not answer all prayers with a big loud YES..sometimes the
> answer is "no" and sometimes going through many trying times in
> this life, one becomes aware that our lives are all planned by
> the Almighty God.  Perchance after all the tradgedies that have
> befallen your friend's family, the mother and father will realize
> how "petty" their differences were that caused the divorce...and
> unite again to "share" their grief and see the whole "mess" through
> together.  I am not saying this is what will happen, but your
> friend should try and leave his worry at the foot of the cross...
> leave it in the Hands of God, in other words.  [MARGE SCHULPIET]

How very quaint.  God answers prayers by not answering them, by giving
you a "lesson" to learn, by "helping" you see how petty your little
troubles are.  At the expense of human lives.  Beautiful.  If this
is your god, then Paul is dead on right, and I feel sorry for anyone
going along with this hateful despicable philosophy.

Thank Ubizmo I know better than to engage in this sort of wishful thinking,
wherein a tragedy is assumed to be a "message" from god, a lesson to be
learned, that owing to god's will, will cause everything to turn out just
fine in the end.  Whatever childish reason there might be for choosing to
believe this in light of the realities of the world is beyond me.  Doubtless
someone will respond "and that is your loss".  No, my friend, whomever you
might be, that is *yours*.
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