With all the talk of the power of intercessionary prayer in Oklahoma including televangelist Pat Robertson's claim that those killed didn't pray enough and the unwillingness of tornado survivors to move because of their certainty in a god of rebuilding, I had to put this together. If intercessionary prayer worked for a survivor, then by definition, it must have failed for a victim (and of course one day will fail perhaps years later when that victim eventually dies of something despite prayers to the contrary). This view implies that some prayer's are right, others wrong, or perhaps some transmitting at full signal, others hardly at all. Either way, inherent in this metaphor is a certain capricious cruelty to a deity who seems to disproportionately shower good stuff on people whose complexion most resembles that of the girl on the left while neglecting or abandoning so many others who look more like the other two.
At any rate, fundamentalists have no way of explaining why such a prayer-hungry deity would spare the life of an atheist and her child (the bible is quite clear that children and their children's children are to be punished for the incorrect worship of their parents), as CNN's Wolf Blitzer discovered somewhat awkwardly, even if Glenn Beck is convinced this was a liberal plant, part of a larger conspiracy against his view of god.
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