How well did God work out for the millions of Jews who prayed for their salvation against the NAZI’s?
Not too well.
Wake up, there is not a magical old fellow in the sky saving the day. I know it makes life easier to deal with down here if you just “believe it so”, but others like me deal in reality. Life is tough. We must be strong and fight for our freedoms, not praying that a entity saves us.
>> there is not a magical old fellow in the sky saving the day
I agree with you. Jehovah, the Creator of the Universe, is definitely NOT as you, who does not know Him, describe Him there.
>> We must be strong and fight for our freedoms, not praying that a entity saves us.
“I am a strong believer in prayer. There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that’s working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes.
“Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin, in everything, That’s where prayer comes in. Up to now, in the Third Army, God has been very good to us. We have never retreated; we have suffered no defeats, no famine, no epidemics. This is because a lot of people back home are praying for us. We were lucky in Africa, in Sicily and in Italy. Simply because people prayed. But we have to pray for ourselves, too. A good soldier is not made merely by making him think and work. There is something in every soldier that goes deeper than thinking or working — it’s his ‘guts.’ It is something that he has built in there: it is a world of truth and power that is higher than himself. Great living is not all output of thought and work. A man has to have intake as well. I don’t know what you call it, but I call it religion, prayer or God.”
So wrote General George S. Patton, a mighty warrior for freedom AND a mighty man of GOD, who was stronger than you’ll ever be and fought harder for YOUR and MY freedom than you ever have, or will, atheist keyboard warrior.
And, incidentally, George Patton was a key part of the ANSWER to the MANY prayers that ascended to the Throne of GOD to defeat Nazi Germany.