1/ Folk counseling prayer as a solution to COVID-19 aren't just fools but assholes. How hard ya figure enslaved folk prayed for God to end their captivity? How hard ya think abused kids pray for an end to their torture? But it doesn't work. WE have to solve problems. Same here..
2/ To think there's a God who'd intervene in THIS case but NOT to end hunger & disease claiming millions of lives annually is to believe in an evil, capricious creator who allows mass suffering on a whim, occasionally responding to heavenly entreaties but mostly not. It's sick..
3/ ...and amounts to relinquishing OUR agency and responsibility for helping one another, ensuring health care resources, building and sustaining just and caring communities, and acting responsibly towards one another...
4/ I'm not mocking faith & belief itself, just the application of that faith as a 'solution' to human-made problems. U can believe in God w/o thinking God works magically to solve our problems if only we say certain words and believe strongly enough. Stop passing the buck...
