re: #271 lawhawk

Just don’t pray too hard. Then you’re wishing for it to stop.

Pray too intensely, and you get downpours and flash floods.
Pray too long, and you get hurricanes and long term flooding.

Not enough praying? Droughts and crop failures.

That’s the worldview of the prayer solves everything cabal.

A good friend of mine had an interesting approach for dealing with a college evangelist that was praying for his conversion.

“If your prayer for my conversion were to be efficacious, what effect would that have on my free will?”

Apparently this sent the would-be evangelist off to the local priest for guidance.