Rebutting proof #44: the Christian housewife's mustard-stain prayer
- Is God imaginary because He supposedly answers trivial prayers, like removing a mustard stain from a blouse, while great suffering goes unanswered?
The hosts read proof #44 from godisimaginary.com, which argues God is imaginary because believers pray trivial prayers — a Christian housewife in Pasadena who believes God removed a mustard stain from her blouse — while terrible suffering goes unanswered. The hosts counter from several angles: the author judges from a comfortable worldly perspective and does not know suffering the way the suffering do; God desires community, so there is nothing wrong with bringing anything to Him in prayer; the proof is a rehash of earlier ones and merely shows prayers are not answered the way the author expects.
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