I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of people praying for democrat victories. so who gets the answer they want?"
In other words...pretty empty and barren.
This kind of argument erks me...this is the kind of argument that made me question the Christian church, not Christianity mind you, but the Christian church. No matter how you stack it, comments like "In other words...pretty empty and barren." to describe another persons life outside of "Christianity" really does not witness to well to people. I've been apart of or visited just about every church, Protestant/Catholic, pentecostal/fundemental, calvinist/armenian...every one having thier own brand of theology, slightly different from another. In my search for truth, the attitude of X denomination has all the answers or Y denomination has all the answers alienated myself from alot of really good people, had my faith focused on "I'm right" instead of "I'm going to DO right", and turned my life into a living hypocritical sham. Thinking X or Y were the only ones that were "right" just turned me off to the church alltogether.
So I have a a simple faith now, in God, in Christ, in the Bible, and in prayer...that will not be apart of a "church", that will not come off as self righteous or that I know everything (cause I don't), and that will focus on my actions toward anothers as well as the the actions of my heart without discrimminating the "un-believer". I think God is much more concerned with our actions than preaching the hellfire to our neighbor.
My $0.02 /rant off
And worth every penny of it, my friend! Lots of good men and women gave their lives so that all of us can rant and rage without danger. And within that rant there are some profound truisms that all Christians need to take to heart.
One of the best lines I have seen is that, "Christians aren't perfect...just forgiven!" Actually, I believe lots of us are forgiven, even if we aren't "Church-goin' Christians." Now watch the flames roll in!