Halleluiah! Praise the Lord! Praise - um, who am I praising?
(Just so you know, I had to look up the spelling of halleluiah. I don’t think I’ve ever had cause to spell it before. But I had it right except I left off the last ‘h’.
Dopefest experiment! Next summer we all gather in Phoenix for a big Independence Day weekend test to see if the collective will of the teeming masses can create snow. We start on Friday praying and blowing up things (explosives really impress the Almighty). If it doesn’t snow that night, on Saturday we pray some more, blow up more things and burn Charles Darwin in effigy. If nothing still happens then on Sunday we do all of the above plus a burnt offering of animals and plants (commonly referred to as a cookout). It goes without saying that there will be the ritualistic imbibing of many adult beverages throughout this prayer vigil.
Of course, if it does snow at any time then Der trihs must flagellate himself with a wet noodle while singing I’m a Believer.
A similar attempt to *halt *rain proved fruitless at Woodstock.
Yeah but they were a different type of doper.
Og. Duh. 
Isn’t it just possible that the proof they seek is in NOT getting rain? In Matthew 6:5-6 it says not to pray in public, but to entreat God in private. Maybe the governor’s first prayer vigil actually delayed the rain, and this new one will only make the delay longer. Just a thought . . . from an atheist.
It is easy to prove God exists.
One Christian prays for rain and another one prays there won’t be any.
God will answer precisely one prayer, proving he exists.
Having got that out the way, why not ask God to feed everybody in the World? Why should an American politican get his prayer answered, but not starving people elsewhere?
And which political party does God support?
The governor is…
from the future?
-FrL-
Because the starving people are third world heathens, of course!
As for political party, it depends on which part of the trinity you choose. OT God is definitely republican (smiting, striking down non-believers, vengeful and full of wrath). Jesus is a Democrat (gives away food, doesn’t want money lenders around, tries to heal everyone and spread a message of love and acceptance). I don’t know how the Holy Spirit would vote. Libertarian?
Wow. If Jesus acts like a Dem, that should really piss of the Christian Conservatives with the WWJD bumper stickers and fish decals.
No, that’s only in California.
Easy answer: believers would say God did it, and non-believers would say it was a fluke.
Yes, but a lot of people think leaping to “accident” is equally baseless.
Then don’t leap. Do a controlled experiment.
As a scientist, if I get a result, until that result is repeated enough times to reach statistical significance, “accident” is exactly how it is classified.
On the same day that the Governor of Georgia prayed for rain, I and a group of friends prayed to the Hindu God Ganesh to send rain to Georgia. So how do you know it was not our prayers that did it? This is NOT ridiculous. Hundreds of millions of intelligent, rational and sincere people believe in Ganesh.
If you are going to claim a particular effect is due to a particular cause, it seems to me that you have to first show the link between the claimed cause and the effect.
We know it rained the next day. Fine. That is the effect. Now, what proof do you have of which supernatural being “caused” the rain?
It’s ok, you both prayed to the same God, just different names.
What was the weather forecast issued the day before the Governor prayed, specifically concerning the chance of rain the day after? If it rained the day after the prayer, then we are talking about a 48-hour to 60-hour forecast. These are generally reliable.
Did the forecast say there was NO chance of showers? If so, that is an interesting result that would SUGGEST a possibilkity of another force outside the normal weather patterns and physical laws. But you would have to repeat the experiment to form conclusions.
Was the rain that fell on Georgia after the Governor prayed sufficient to relieve the drought and its effects? How much rain fell? Did it fall everywhere in the state?
Did it also fall on other states whose governor did NOT pray?
Is there ever a serious drought in which SOMEONE does not pray for rain? Do prayers of Governors and high-placed officials count for more than the prayers of a poor dirt farmer, for example?
I bliev Georgia is more populous than most of its neighbours. Does the number of prayers have an effect?
That’s how I was raised; prayer is an act of worship. Then ONLY thing it is acceptable to ask of God is faith, and maybe, for the strength to accept His will.
Intercessory prayer to the saints was fine, though.
How do you know it’s the same god?
Easy, there is only one God, which people call by many, many different names. They also attribute many different characterists to God, but God is only love.
And how do you know there is only one, or any gods at all ? You don’t. IF there are gods, you have no way to tell if there’s just one or an infinity of them.
Then God is worthless and should be ignored.
You know, I’ve never been a romantically inclined person, but people with rhetoric like yours have gotten me to the point where the word “love” makes my skin crawl.