In response to all the letters about God and prayer that I read in the Journal Star:
I read these impassioned letters from the religious, trying to convince us through faulty circular logic, and despite the evidence, that prayer does indeed work. Instead of convincing me of anything, they only show me a startling portrait of self-contradiction.
Prayers of Petition contradict the very idea of an omniscient god. The “free will” argument that the religious then invoke in defense of prayer, further contradicts their very own description of God. No being can be omniscient and omnipotent at the same time.
As we now know about Mother Theresa, whose deeds seemed inextricably linked to her closeness to God, she was actually living her life in the absence of belief. In a letter to a spiritual confidant, she remarked, “the tongue moves in prayer, but does not speak.”
We know that the multitudes of pedophile priests, being protected by the Catholic Church as they raped our children, could not possibly believe in the god of the Bible and still perform the deeds that they did.
The books of the Bible are themselves walking and talking self-contradictions. It is not possible for God to give Moses the Sixth Commandment- “Thou shalt not kill”, and then continue to order genocide, murder, a scorched earth policy, ethnic cleansing, rape, and slavery on all his enemies, all with his blessing.
Self-contradictions seem to be the hallmark of religious belief.
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