Definition of the word pray, by Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)…”To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
I am totally convinced that there is no god listening to prayers. I am now seventy four years old and to date I have seen absolutely no evidence of the existence of any divine being throughout my entire life. Consider this:
In 2006, Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel suffered a stroke. The whole of the country (as well as million supporters in the USA) prayed for his recovery….He deteriorated daily.
About the same time, in the United States, 13 minors were trapped underground. President Bush asked the whole country to pray for them…They came up in body bags.
In the same month, in England, a whale lost its way and ended up in the river Thames. Britishers were asked to pray for it…It died a few days later
About the same time, more than 400 Muslims visiting Mecca to pray to Allah were crushed to death!
May 2008, Pope Benedict prayed for the victims and their families after a cyclone hit Myanmar. I guess he prayed to the same god who caused the storm, killing up to 113,000 people and making over one million homeless. At the same time he asked that all countries send aid to Myanmar. If prayer really worked he could just have asked god to send manna from heaven!
You don’t think that the six million Jews, (God’s chosen people) and a few million other gypsies, retards and Poles murdered by the Nazis prayed? A lot of good that did for them!
Whenever an airplane crashes and only one or two people survive, you can be sure that they will say that they prayed and god saved them. Nobody ever mentions the hundreds that died. You don’t think that most of them prayed also?
The various Popes are revered by millions of Catholics as the nearest thing to a god. Were they protected and rewarded? …Not a chance!
Pope Johann Xll died at the age of 18, killed by his lover’s husband.
Pope Paul 1 died after only 33 days of being “divinely selected.”
Here are the rewards given to Pope John Paul ll
On May 13th 1981 he was shot in the stomach and the hand,
0n June 20th 1981 he suffered an infection and was operated on.
On July 15th 1992 he was operated on for a colon tumor.
On November 11th 1993 he was hospitalized for a dislocated shoulder.
On April29th 1994 he was hospitalized for a broken leg.
On December 25th 1995 (Christmas day) he was bedridden with flu.
On March 13th 1996 he had to cancel an audience due to intestinal ailment.
On August 15th 1996 the same thing occurred.
On October 8th 1996 he underwent surgery to remove an inflamed appendix.
On February 1997 cancelled audience because of flu.
On June 15th 1999 could not travel to Poland because of flu.
On January 31st 2005 urgently hospitalized with respiratory problems and larynx spasms.
On February 24th 2005 the same thing occurred: he died from septic shock and a cardio-circulatory collapse brought on by a urinary tract infection.
Note that on all these occasions the pope did not turn to prayer but preferred science…the very thing that the Catholic Church has been fighting since its inception…what utter hypocrisy!
In Indonesia, the worlds largest Muslim country where the populace prays five times a day there, are so many earthquakes, mudslides, floods, volcanoes etc that it is known as the “Country of 1001 disasters.” In the space of a couple of months here are a few daily gifts from Allah for their trouble!
Feb.24th 08 Two earthquakes measuring 7.6 and 7.3 struck in the area of Pagai, Sipora and Siberut destroying at least 300 houses as well as public infrastructure. Thousands of people are living in makeshift houses or tents.
Twenty nine years of violence between the “Free Aceh” separatism movement and the government killed more than 15,000 people.
Feb.27th 08 Two children, Pribuan aged 13 and Roswilda aged 14 months were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.2 hit Pagai Ultara Island, Indonesia. This was the third large quake within a week which also destroyed 17 houses. 233 families have been left without shelter.
In 1989 164 villagers were slaughtered in Talangsari, Lampung province by the Indonesian military.
Do you think that leprosy is not around anymore? In West Java, 2,579 cases were recorded in 2007.
. In December 2004, the Asian Tsunami killed more than 160,000 people in the Indonesian area called Aceh which is run under the fanatically religious Sharia law. The reason, according to a Muslim leader was that the women were showing too much skin. This was easier for the unthinking populace to accept than the truth…that Indonesia sits on a series of faults like the Indo-Australian and Eurasian Tectonic plates!
Mar.3rd 08 A powerful quake measuring 6.3 struck off Sumatra Island, Indonesia, one of several in this month.
Four villages in Kampar Regency were flooded in 2008 making thousands of villagers homeless and submerging their homes and farmland.
Mar.5th 08 In Indonesia to date, there have been 126 case of bird flu making it the most bird-flu prone of all countries
Mar.9th 08 In Cilacap, Indonesia three people were killed and one seriously burned when there was an explosion at a fuel refinery.
Whenever Indonesians buy a new car or motorcycle, they have a little religious ceremony called Selamatan where they pray to Allah for protection…You can see how useless that is because every day about 80 people die in traffic accidents there.
Mar.11th 08 One person was killed and another injured in Manyingsal, Indonesia when an Air Force helicopter crashed into a sugarcane field.
West Aceh, where the ultra religious Sharia Law is enforced is the most flood-prone regency of Sumatra Island.
Mar.12th 08 Between 2007 and 2008, 62 people in Banymas, Indonesia committed suicide because they could not feed their families.
In the Menewai Island more than 2,000 families were victims of earthquakes on September 12th 2007. Just to be sure, there was another quake there on February 26th 2008
Mar.12th 08 Three people died, one is missing and four injured when a brand new passenger ship capsized in Morowali waters Indonesia.
Every day twenty women die of cervical cancer and forty one new cases are diagnosed.
Mar.12th. 08 In Bogor, Indonesia dozens of houses were destroyed in Tugu Utara and Tutgu Selatan by mudslides.
Mar.12th. 08 15 houses were destroyed and 25 damaged by mudslides near Telaga Warna Lake, Indonesia.
In May 2008, Indonesian Health Minister Tjandra Yoga said that the number of people infected with NIV was estimated at 193,000.
Mar.13th. 08 In Jakarta, Indonesia hundreds of residents in Cawang, Cililitan and Kampung were forced to flee their homes after they became flooded.
From 2006 to 2007n, 840 disasters in Indonesia killed 7,300 people and destroyed 750,000 homes.
.Mar16th 08 In the Indonesian province that includes Koa village on Rote Island, seven children under the age of five died from starvation while fifty other very young children died from malnutrition.
Mar.16th. 08 In Klaten, Central Java Indonesia, floods buried 11 houses and submerged 48 hectares of rice fields
Mar.17th 08 An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale hit West Sumatra, Indonesia.
In January 2007 Indonesian airline Adam Air crashed into the sea killing 102 passengers and the crew. While searching for the plane, the government contacted a paranormal for help who claimed that “Allah had taken the aircraft.” It was finally located nine days later.
Mar.24th 08 In Cipana village Indonesia, a stone mine collapsed killing one miner and injuring 10 others.
Mar.24th 08 Paulino Lopez 19, died and dozens of people were injured in Atambua, Indonesia due to a clash between locals and Timor Leste refugees.
In the three months from January to March 2008, 5,786 cases of Dengue fever were reported and nine people died in the Jakarta area.
Mar.25th 08 Heavy rain for a few days has submerged the northern part of Balikpapan Indonesia, with water over 2 meters deep. The villagers had to be transported to safety by rubber boat.
Mar25th 08 In four villages in Papua, 23 people died from acute respiratory infection in a three month period
In 1989 up to 246 people in Lampung village were killed by the Indonesian military while they were attempting to form a more religious Islamic state.
Mar.26th 08 Flooding in sever regencies in Riau, Indonesia forced all the residents to flee their homes for higher ground.
In May 2007 in Pasuruan, four villagers were killed and eleven injured when they were fired upon by Indonesian marines.
Mar 27th 08 Near Sampang, Indonesia, a cargo boat capsized killing a 25 year old mother and her 4 year old child.
Mar 29th 08 Floods in Riau, Indonesia have inundated 12,000 hectares of rice and corn crops.
In Yogyakarta the estimated number of people with AIDS jumped from 20 in 2002 to393 in 2007. Mostly affected are in the age group 15 to 30.
Mar 29th 08 In Indragiri, Indonesia 365 hectares of rice and 201 hectares of corn are engulfed by floods.
Mar 29th 08 In Kampar and Kuantan Singingi, Indonesia, about 600 hectares of crops were flooded.
Mar.30th 08 A heavy rain storm damaged 329 houses in Jambi, Indonesia.
Some 5 million people in Asia including 200,000 in Indonesia are living with AIDS and 440 thousand are dying every year.
Mar.31st 08 In Bandung, Indonesia a tree blown over by heavy winds smashed a Suzuki Jeep injuring the three occupants, one seriously
Apr 1st 08 In Indonesia in the last week a 15 year old boy and a 12 year old girl died from bird flu bringing the country total of deaths to 107.
Apr.2nd 08 An earthquake measuring 6.2 hit the island of Suatra, Indonesia.
During the period of January through March 2008, due to flooding in East Nusa Tenggara, 4,300 houses were damaged, 2,000 water well closed, 1,6600 buffaloes and cows were drowned and more than 12,000 hectares of crops destroyed. On top of that, scores of fishing boats capsized, 21 people dies and 21,600 lost their homes. Dozens of residents, mainly under the age of 5 dies from malnutrition
Apr 15th 08 In Sikka regency Indonesia, Mount Egon erupted forcing over a thousand residents to flee their homes and causing 20,000 to face breathing problems and water shortages as their wells became contaminated. This same mountain erupted in 1925, 2004 and 2006
Apr 15th 08 In Dumai Indonesia fire destroyed 20 small business kiosks
Apr 16th 08 In Jakarta, Indonesia 27 year old Safri Agung died of a heart attack as he traveled on a bus to work.
On 27th 2006 an earthquake struck Yogyakarta and central Java killing over 6 thousand, damaging more than 20,000 houses and displacing 1.5 million people.
Apr 16th 08 In the past three days, hundreds of hectares of rice and dozens of homes have been swamped by floods in Limapuluh Kota Indonesia.
Apr 16th 08 Flooding in south Jakarta Indonesia caused residents to flee their homes.
In Indonesia there are more than 500,000 cases of tuberculosis every year.
Apr 20th 08 In five villages in Gumelar district Indonesia, 115 people suffered food poisoning after eating Bakso, a local food.
Apr 25th 08 In Siberut Island Indonesia 3 people died and 534 homes and many farms were swamped when the river banks burst.
Apr 26th 08 Flash floods in Aceh Indonesia killed thousands of chickens destroyed numerous hectares of rice paddies as well as displacing 34,510 people.
Apr 27th 08 In Depok Indonesia, a fire destroyed dozens of garment shops near to the bus terminal.
In May 2006 a mudflow in Sidoarjo destroyed the houses of more than 12,000 families.
Apr 29th 08 In Lebek regency Indonesia, a typhoon destroyed 250 houses in three villages.
In Papau, 2,900 of the 3,300 villages lack clean water leaving the residents vulnerable to diarrhea, lung infection and skin diseases.
May 2nd 08 A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck the west coast of Sumatra Indonesia.
To date in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, there are 114 people with HUV.
May 6th 08 In Tembagapura Indonesia, 20 gold miners were buried alive by a landslide, killing all of them.
In the Indonesian provinces of Papau and West Papau, 2.4 percent of the population are infected with the AIDS virus. More than half are married women who do not change partners or use drugs
May 6th 08 In north Jakarta Indonesia, a dam collapse caused flooding of hundreds of houses
In May 1998 there were riots in Jakarta after four people were killed at Trisakti university. The final death toll was 1,188.
May 7th 08 150 villagers fled Cemara Indonesia due to rising flood waters that also badly damaged 10 hectares of fish and shrimp ponds
May 9th 08 In North Sulawesi Indonesia a 5.0 earthquake hit. This was one day after another 5.5 earthquake hit near Sabang city. This was one day after a 5.6 and a 5.3 earthquakes hit Maluku and East Nusa Tenggara.
May 9th 08 In the Siak river Indonesia the tugboat Abadi 228 sank trapping two crew members Widoyo and Yasman under water.
May 13th 08 In the past week at Bancarkember elementary school in Banyumas regency Indonesia, 40 pupils suffered food poisoning after drinking milk.
On February 8th 2008 in the area of Situbondo, floods caused the death of fifteen people and the total destruction of over 3,000 homes.
May 13th 08…In Mojoagung village Indonesia, four villagers died from food poisoning after eating corn and rice.
May 13th 08 In Bandung Indonesia, 3,000 people between the ages of 14 and 35 are believed to have contracted the disease lupus which effects the immune system
May 18th 08 Bird flu hits Tebo regency Indonesia, killing thousands of domestic birds and causing the highest bird flu alert.
May 19th 08 In north Sumatra Indonesia, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake destroyed 316 houses, 13 schools, 6 churches and 4 mosques
May 24th 08…In the Indonesian province of Maluku, an earthquake measuring 6.7 struck followed by a 6.0 magnitude aftershock.
May 24th 08 In Purwokerto Indonesia 2 people died and 25 were injured when a passenger bus collided with a cargo truck.
May 25th 08 In Cakung East Jakarta Indonesia, 7 year old Fery Heriawan Arsad died from dengue fever, one of 4,762 infected in the area in 2008
29th May 08 In Ambon Indonesia, landslides inundated many houses in several villages.
May 31st 08 In Sikka regency Indonesia, 5 people have died and 58 more are infected with dengue fever.
In Batam, more people every year are contracting HIV. In 2006 193 rested positive with 45 adults and 9 infants having AIDS
Jun 1st 08 In west Jakarta Indonesia, 2 workers were blown to pieces when a plastic compressor machine exploded.
Jun 3rd 08 In Kosambi district Indonesia, high tide flooding inundated the area with one meter high water where 4,000 families were living. This is almost a monthly occurance.
Jun 4th 08 In east Jakarta Indonesia, a fire destroyed 9 furniture shops causing losses of $US 860,000
Jun 4th 08 In east Java Indonesia, 2 fishing boats, Muncul Jaya and Sandang sank in heavy seas, killing 2 crew members.
In the first six months of 2008 in East Nusa Tenggara, 25 children have died from malnutrition, while those suffering reached 72,085.
Jun 5th 08 In Manggari Indonesia, a landslide cut off access to 6 subdistricts, destroying houses and causing over 400 people to flee.
Jun 5th 08 In Kumang-kumang Indonesia, flash floods and landslides hit a resettlement area causing the residents to panic.
Jun 12th 08 In south Sulawesi Indonesia, HIV/AIDS infections grew to 1,8i44 in 2008 described by the local hospital as “Just the tip of the iceberg”
Jun 18th 08 A 4.7 earthquake shook the Indonesian island of Banda causing many people to panic and flee the area.
Jun 26th 08 An Indonesian military NC-212 aircraft crashed on Salak mountain Indonesia killing at least 18 people.
Jun 26th 08 In Bangkinang Indonesia a minibus plunged into a ravine killing 6 family members as they returned from a relative’s funeral.
As of June 2008 there have been 87 recorded suicides in Banymas caused by economic problems.
The above is mainly just within a four month period and only in one small area of the world!
