Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith

that gave me an explanation I can live with is a book written by Rabbi Howard Kushner. No relation to Jared. He suffered a tragedy in his family, and began to question why as he had devoted his life to serving God.

He came to the conclusion that as humans we can chose to see God as all loving or all powerful, but he can't be both. If he were both he'd prevent horrible things from happening to those who honor him. He concludes that God is not all powerful because he chose to give humans free will, and if they choose to do bad things to others with that, he can't stop them. All he can do is offer strength and comfort to those suffering so they can survive the bad stuff.

Plus I sincerely believe that there is evil in this world, and I honestly believe Trump has chosen to be pure evil.

As for praying to win games, or elections, I think there are two possibilities The first is people honestly want to believe God can make it happen, but he can't. Secondly, my more cynical side thinks some people pretend they are devout believers because they think it will win them brownie points with others.