how do these prayers work? If you pray for me to get a job, and I don't get it, can I blame you and god? If I do get a job, am I then indebted to you and god? What if I pray for the people of Kenya, and I pray for me to get a job. Then let's say I get a job (thanks God!) but there's a mass genocide in Kenya... Does that mean god likes me more?
What if it's simple praying for our sins... don't we create those sins? Isn't it a cop out to blame my sins on acts of god. Or when things go wrong, for me to blame it on god's will? What about when things go well? Is that because of god? Why does he/she/it [god] get all the credit and not me?
Why does going to a place which humans deem holy [church] make me closer to god? Hey, I live directly across the street from a church, does that mean I'm closer to god b/c I'm his neighbor? If I go into that church and pray, as an obviously cynical person, will I get smited?
On the note of smites, what is that exactly? Is there any physical evidence of a smite from [STRIKE]the gods[/STRIKE] god?
Why do so many people think there is only one god? Wouldn't it make sense for the All Mighty to delegate to other gods, like a well working machine to keep everything running? Then that would kind of answer my prayer questions. Because if I pray to the god of cooking that I don't burn Thanksgiving dinner, and then I pray to the god of war to keep our troops safe. But then a civilian bombing kills American troops giving out food, but my turkey is awesome, I can then say "okay well the cooking god had my back this Thursday, but the god of war must have missed my memo or was busy helping someone else." At lease then it isn't a "God likes me more than you" situation.
These are honest questions. Thoughts?
