Originally posted by @bigdoggproblemYou don't see the difficulty here because you're not religious.
Hmm. While on the one hand I think it's a bit silly for athletes to point to the sky after every touchdown they score, I can't help but think your statement is a tad absolutist. Righteous people are NEVER supposed to pray for a sports team? Why not?
God can't be bothered which team wins, EVER.
Why in the hell would a person pray for some team to win, when there are people going hungry, people getting killed, people being enslaved EVERY DAY?
Which team wins is pretty damned far down God's priority list, and for a person to think it is so important that it should get bumped to the top is selfishness taken to a new extreme.
No, no righteous man would pray for that.
Originally posted by @suzianneWho said anything about changing God's priority list?
You don't see the difficulty here because you're not religious.
God can't be bothered which team wins, EVER.
Why in the hell would a person pray for some team to win, when there are people going hungry, people getting killed, people being enslaved EVERY DAY?
Which team wins is pretty damned far down God's priority list, and for a person to think i ...[text shortened]... d to the top is selfishness taken to a new extreme.
No, no righteous man would pray for that.
So you're only allowed to pray about hunger, killing, and slavery...I guess people in the first world don't get to pray for much in their local lives, then?
-Removed-Nope, you have the cart before the horse.
Not, if you pray for a sports team, then you're unrighteous.
What I am saying is that those who DO pray for a sports team do not understand who they pray to. A righteous man would understand that he's wasting his time praying for something so insignificant. Praying for harmony among spectators, or that everyone involved in the game do their best is one thing. But to pray that one team win is simply not God's will, and it simply cheapens the act of prayer. What I SAID was that a righteous man would never pray that one team win over another team. I did not say that if one does pray for that that they are automatically "unrighteous". There are vanishingly few biblically righteous people on the earth anymore. But that also doesn't make them wicked, sinful or evil, like you apparently would like to suggest I'm saying.
Don't worry about it. I wasn't singling you out.
Originally posted by @wolfgang59My condolences wolfgang59.
She died.
No more or less relevant than any child that has suffered.