The Orca’s Thumb

A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol.

“We don’t have anybody else to turn to but God,” Mr Twyman told the BBC. “We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man.”

I guess they’ve selectively forgotten about all the other times they prayed for something and nothing happened… but that’s probably just God’s way of testing us, isn’t it?

Problem is — the prices didn’t go down.

But think about it for a second — if prices had come down and if these people had been the cause, then they just royally wasted their supernatural praying god-powers on lowering the prices of gas/petrol. Wouldn’t it have been better for them to use that divine power to cure cancer or something?

I thought the idea was to pray to ease all the world’s suffering. Not just your own…