Following up on a recent post about how effective Christian prayer has supposedly been in reducing pump prices in the US, there's now more news from Nigeria about the alleged power of Christian prayer.
ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) – Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.
Muslims are attacking Christians because they think that Christians prayed for the death of their leader, and their prayers worked.
Why would their prayers work, though, if, as Muslims think, Christianity is a false religion? Very weird.
Go here for the report.
ILORIN, Nigeria, August 14 (Compass Direct News) – Blaming the death of their leader on Christian prayers, an Islamist group that launched a hate campaign in response to an evangelistic event in 2004 is reportedly attacking Christians in this Kwara state capital with renewed virulence, area Christians said.
Muslims are attacking Christians because they think that Christians prayed for the death of their leader, and their prayers worked.
Why would their prayers work, though, if, as Muslims think, Christianity is a false religion? Very weird.
Go here for the report.
Comments
I would prefer to fly in an aircraft piloted by someone who relies on the various instruments and flight control directions, rather than upon prayer.
Each group can pray for the death of the other group's Nigerian religious leader and see who succeeds.
To avoid cheating, only supernatural deaths would count, eg, the Christian leader is fatally beaten by an attack of killer communion wafers, or the Muslim leader is shagged to death by 72 raisins. I'd be convinced.
Kiwi Dave
It makes a lot more sense if you believe in fickle, vain Gods who will be swayed by pleadings, groveling or offerings. So when you've spent ages trying to convince everyone that your God is ultimately responsible for everything, and either knows what is best for you and everyone else anyway or else has purpose beyond mortal understanding, why try to influence Him? He's hardly going to be impressed by threats or promises, or to need helpful advice. It seems to be a hangover from polythesism - at least the old Gods were known to be flawed, vain and partial.
In that broadcast, the science teachers were saying to Dawkins that they taught evolution as the best scientific explanation, but they did not consider it was any of their business, as teachers, to encourage their pupils to question their religious faith. When Dawkins asked them "why not?" they just gawped at him. Not very logical teachers, if you ask me!
Dawkins chose not to side with the Archbishop against the literalists, with liberalism against extremism. Now, there is a lot of evidence that gravity is true, but what do you mean by 'gravity'? Some action upon your body's mass (or any body's mass) by some other body's mass, usually at a considerable distance? That seems like a very Newtonian notion. Do you even understand the Einsteinian notion? The science teachers were very logical, perhaps too logical for the 20th century, but hopefully not for this one...