"I was sitting with some friends at Starbucks recently when an older gentleman came up to our table and started passing out little metal hearts with Bible verses on them. He went on and on about how great God is, and told us he'd been pulled over by a cop for talking on his cell phone while driving, but he prayed to God to stop the cop from giving him a ticket, and the cop didn't - proof positive that prayer works! Right? Now even though my mind was racing with all the proof I could give this guy that prayer is nothing but superstition, I showed an incredible amount of restraint and didn't say a word - mostly because he was just an old, confused codger who's been brainwashed all his life to believe nonsense, and because I didn't want to make a scene in front of my friends. But here's what I should have said. You mean to tell me that almighty God, who created the unfathomable depth and breadth of the universe and everything in it, who knows what every atom and subatomic particle in his infinite creation is doing at every nanosecond... THAT God thinks you're so special that he decided to ignore the indescribable amount of suffering, misery and death happening simultaneously all over the world to the children he loves so much, and spend his time to help you beat a traffic ticket, which you are 100% guilty of by the way. Is THAT what you expect me to believe? Seriously? Ok – if you want to convince me, how about instead of you being such a selfish son of a bitch, you pray for something worthwhile like asking God to stop letting over 1400 innocent little children under 5 years old starve to death every day, or how about praying for cures for all the wonderful terminal diseases God has given us to enjoy? How about tonight before you go to sleep, when you pray to that god who you know in your heart favors helping you with your selfish, petty little problems while ignoring so many others who are suffering and really need his help, you pray for THAT? And tomorrow morning, if the headlines in every newspaper in the world read "All Diseases Cured, And All World Problems Mysteriously Solved" I'll convert to Christianity on the spot! How about you do that?"
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