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The Power of Prayer
Posted by MangaPunkSai on August 8, 2007
Yeah yeah, I’m on about religion again. Sorry! It just happens to be a pet peeve of mine. Over the past couple of days my favorite local radio personality, Charles, has been ranting about this woman, whose story has probably been naturally embraced, who was jogging under the bridge in Minnesota moments before it collapsed. And her first instinct wasn’t to turn and run back to the aid of others, but to run to a park and call out to the people around her that she wanted to… pray. And effectively distracted about fifteen people from actually taking action and doing something that would actually help save lives. But I’m sure displaying their faith and worship made them all feel all squishy inside.
Charles was making points, and I can only say they’re his claims as I’m having trouble finding news on this, that while this woman and her prayer group sat around praying a school bus driver helped all the children in his care to safety out the emergency exit as the bus was pinned against a barrier. A skateboarder was going around helping people climb to safety. And meanwhile all she and anyone who joined her did was sit around and mumble to themselves, as the bridge collapsed, cars plunged into the river, and people died, just yards away, and she’s considered a hero for it because prayer was involved, and it’s her story that’s told, I think, because it can be skewed into a sugary anecdote of faith. Hearing this, I had to look it up for myself.