Oh Lord, We Beseech Thee... And Stuff

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Check this out: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/25/BUCN10C1KR.DTL

Ok, let's just for a moment pretend, for the sake of argument, that praying for something actually works. The fact that none of the people who picked on me in high school have had their genitals spontaneously combust, despite my feverent use of prayer speaks to it's utter uselessness but, let us pretend.

For the purposes of this discussion, lets say that prayer works. Ok, now in my humble-ish estimation the ability to cause divine intervention would qualify as a pretty damn spectacular ability. Some might even call this grand ability a "power". Now, as we all learned from our good friend Spidey, with great power comes great responsibility. I thing the ability to alter time and space as well as telling the laws of physics to get bent surely qualifies as a great power.

So, how do they exercise this power in a responsible manner? They pray for lower gas prices. Wait? What?!?! Is that the most noble use they can come up with for this power? Praying for lower gas prices?!?

I mean here is a power that could make the world a vast utopia for all people for all time and this is the best they could come up with? Damn! What about the dying econnomy, world hunger, world poverty, the war in Iraq?!?! What about Darfur?

According to the most recent UN reports the death-toll in Darfur has reached the 300,000 mark. 300,000 people dead. Men women and children, all dead, most in really nasty ways, and high gas prices are the unspeakable travesty that deserves the attention of this awesome power.

BTW, if you haven't heard of the conflict in Darfur, don't feel bad. They have no oil fields so, as far as our mainstream media and administration are concerned, it doesn't actually exist. It may get some slight lip service when we want to look like we give a shit about anything that doesn't line our leader's pockets but nothing even slightly resembling progress ever happens.

Anyway, back to the point (yes, I have one). If we accept this power as fact, what kind of people are these folks who squander it do recklessly? I mean, this is worse than if Superman took the time to save a cat from a tree while behind him a group of three-year-old orphans were being gang raped by a group of syphilitic inbred guano farmers.

It is called priorities folks. In emergency surgery they call it triage and in our country alone high-gas prices don't even make the top ten list of things that need to be fixed in a big fucking hurry. So the next time you want to feel like you are helping without actually doing anything. Please, by all means, pick a more worthy goal! It is what (insert your chosen deity here) would want or something like that.



Rant Over... For now