On Apr 17, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote
What about the idea that "the Lord helps those who help themselves"?
It is baloney, or perhaps the substance that one finds at the south end of a
northbound steer.
That's interesting. So you're suggesting that prayer literally works in all cases (which *does* raise some flag issues regarding your own troubles), that there literally is a God personally involved with and in charge of every aspect of creation and -- with the above quoted statement -- that no matter what anyone does, God's way will be the way that's followed?
(That is, if one is going to fail, one will, no matter how hard one tries? That God won't lend any sort of hand to self-starters? Or do you mean instead that it's just as useful to kneel and beg the ceiling as it is to get out and work for change? That *can't* be what you're suggesting. Can it?)
If the above's a valid assessment, you might want to look at the Koran as a comparative religious exercise, because what I just described here is very, *very* similar to what Islamic fundamentalists believe as well.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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