Of course, it isn't going to work. They fail to understand one simple fact: oil companies bought off god a long time ago.A Dublin church group plans to gather pump-side Saturday and pray for the gas prices to drop.
Mabry says he can remember when gas jumped from under $1 to $1.50 and says, now, with prices reaching almost $4, he says he plans to ask God for help.
And this isn't the first time his congregation has gathered at Kroger's gas pumps.
"If it doesn't drop down to nothin' but ten cents, I'm happy with that. But what I really want to believe God to do is drop down $1.50, hey, I'm glad with that, too," says the pastor.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Practical Religion
There are many things about religion that confuse me. But I do understand the urge to pray to a god for intervention when a situation is going badly. So I understand why these folks in Dublin, GA are asking god for help:
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If God created oil in the first place (as these fundamentalists believe), why not simply ask God to create more, like He did for the widow in 2 Kings 4:1-7?
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