The Black Stars Just Proved that PRAYERS Do Not Work | Stop Wasting Your Time…

Disclaimer; If you are one of the many credulous religious persons who believe a MESSIAH resurrected from the death and that a prophet who stayed in a cave was visited by angels—and yet do not want these hysterical beliefs questioned under the microscope of reason, then do not read this article because you might find it OFFENSIVE.

Religion is violent, irrational, makes absurd claims which it hates to be challenged, allied to racism, tribalism, bigotry, glorifies ignorance and invests heavily in the oppression of women and continues to terrorize children—and I am sure I have not mentioned its hostility to free inquiry.

For people like me, the world would be much better if we begin to question the many extraordinary religious claims which of course it offers no extraordinary evidence for…

I started gaining extra 15 minutes sleep each night since the last time I realized prayers do not work—and there is no God sitting up there listening to prayers or answering them.

Of course there are people who will spend hours upon hours praying for something to happen—instead of getting out of their prayer delusion to go out there to work their butts off.

There is no evidence that prayers work and yet people do not want to accept this fact; anyway, they themselves have prayed for certain things on many occasions which have not materialized—and absurdly they continue to pray.

To be frank, you must be drinking gallons of kerosene to keep praying despite the fact that it has never worked—and hoping it will somehow work for you.  Even when it has not worked for you on numerous occasions, you continue to do it. I do not call this faith; I call it total madness…

Yesterday, before the crucial Ghana Vrs Ivory Coast African Cup of Nations Penalty Shootouts; we saw the Ghanaian players praying—and not just then, the supporters including a friend I was watching the football match with went on their knees to pray.

The result of the penalty kick we all know—and the question is; what happened to the numerous prayers? I have three possible answers; God is dead, God does not answer payers or God is not interested in prayers/football.

The Ivoirians also prayed and the fact that they won the competition has nothing to do with their prayer or God—chance and luck are random, mostly influenced by hard work, dedication and focus.

We’ve become a generation of prayer warriors and it really bothers me. It’s one thing to believe there is a God sitting up there (even that I find it laughable) but to be gullible enough to think that, this God in heaven actually answers prayers—to the extent that he has time to be interfering in football; 22 men chasing some round object on a green grass is pretty sad. A day before the finale match, the President of Ghana-John Dramani Mahama instructed Ghanaians to pray for Black Stars’ victory…

A website proudly reported “Christians in Ghana on Sunday offered special prayers for the senior national team the Black Stars ahead of their titanic African Cup of Nations (AFCON) final with the Elephants of neighbouring Cote d’lvoire in Equatorial Guinea.Congregations at various churches prayed for special strength and energy as well as wisdom for the Black Stars players to defeat the Elephants and end 33 years of AFCON cup drought.

At the Wesley Methodist Cathedral in Cape Coast the congregation poured their hearts out and asked God to give victory to the Stars because without Him the Stars labour in vain.”

Every evidence on a cosmic or quantum scale shows that prayers do not work and yet, people continue to employ this easy mechanism—all because, we ignorantly deem ourselves so important as animals and expect that we will be favoured or listened to by some higher power who has nothing to do with his/her time, except to sit down and be interfering in our affairs per our request.

It’s plainly stupid and pretty selfish for any right thinking person to even assume that considering the many world crisis—ranging from Iraq to Syria and from Northern Nigeria to Afghanistan, a celestial God will leave all these problems unattended to, just to enjoy a football match between two nations and in fact, pick a side to support; thereby helping them become eventual winners…

Don’t tell me these people, I mean the many Ghanaians including the footballers and my friend do not believe so—else, what was the prayer for?

Look, can we start using our brains as people and begin to call a spade a spade?

I won’t mind eating with you if you believe in the God hypothesis because a lot of people believe in far worst theories but to actually somehow come to accept that you are so special amongst the billions of people in the world—and the billions of galaxies in the cosmos; and as such, God listens and answers your prayers is a clear definition of ‘narcissism’.[sociallocker]

When the Black Stars lost following the prayer of my friend, that of the players and the many Ghanaians, I asked my friend this; what happened to your request/call to God to intervene and he looked at me, saying; ‘God does what He wants’. If God does what He wants—then it’s obvious prayers do not work because you cannot persuade Him to change His mind.

His answer was not much of a shock to me because I expected it—but it’s his conviction that prayers actually work and God would interfere in football matches or ‘stupid’ enterprises like that which baffles me.

The last time I wanted to sleep with a girl I had just met, I said a quick prayer and she actually banged the hell out of me—meaning, God answered my prayer to help me fornicate; duh…

We must not continue to undermine our sense of reason like this as a race. We may claim to get a lot of benefits from faith, religion, believe in God and those other things but at least, we should apply a little common sense to some of our claims or activities. We should know when we have to take responsibility and charge of our existence…

Anyway, who sincerely believes prayers work? That person should let me know because I know of a research centre looking to conduct another research on prayer. They want to let you pray for 3 hours and throw you out of a flying plane—and let’s see if God will send beautiful strong angels to catch you up in the air so you would be able to land unhurt.

It doesn’t cost anything to use your head sometimes…you know![/sociallocker]