Yet another mass shooting, and all the Republicans are prepared to do is “pray” for the victims.
As is usual, the chasm between Conservatives and Jesus is so deep that they are profoundly ignorant of who Jesus was or what he taught. And nowhere is this ignorance more glaring than in their “call to prayer.”
Jesus’ teachings on prayer were more than uttering a few trite consolations, as if that is somehow going to help. Prayer was how Jesus PREPARED himself to get the work done. If you’re not prepared to do the work, then prayer isn’t for you.
After every gun tragedy, our leaders tweet the same tripe: "Pray for the victims of this violence."
Yet they have no idea what prayer is.
Jesus was under no illusions that God was going to do his work for him. The Aramaic word Jesus used for prayer meant, among other things, "to set a trap for God." In other words, Jesus set up his life so that his very personage enticed God.
He would then go out and accomplish whatever it was he set out to accomplish: "with God's help."
Jesus caught God so that he could do the work, he didn't ask God to do it for him.
Make no mistake. Prayer wasn't Jesus' action... prayer was his preparation for action. You pray to HEAR God tell you how you can help those in pain and then you go out and DO something.
Otherwise, you're just talking to yourself, and that's insanity.