Sure. I do not believe that asking God to do things on your or others behalf actually causes divine intervention. But some religious people do. The belief that this happens is a not uncommon basis for religious belief, in fact. And that's what some people are trying to do when they offer prayer.
And it’s totally find to mock that very silly belief. Nothing wrong w saying things religious folks find offensive.
This seems to be written as if you think I believe we should avoid offending religious sensibilities. I was criticizing someone speaking on behalf of the religious by pointing out they are falsely representing the scope of religious belief.
Yeah, they need to know they're being selfish and stupid, reinforcing bad ideas. It's time to stop tolerating our own slaughter. It's time to stop letting people lie.
Crazy that Bsky flagged your comment for "intolerance against protected groups." Who? Stupid people? Politicians? Gun nuts?
They've flagged my entire account, every post ever. I'm only intolerant of intolerance, but fascist mods want people to die.
I agree that "thoughts and prayers" when offered as petitionary prayer is bad in the same way I think placebo medicine is bad in that it has the potential to and actually does convince people that this is taking meaningful action in lieu of directing effort to something that might actually help.