So on Twitter, Chris Pratt (a.k.a. Starlord) tweeted in part “I’m praying for you because I believe in the healing power of prayer” to Kevin Smith, who had recently announced that he’d had a heart attack.
And now people are bashing Pratt for saying he was sending prayer. Why? Because they’re apparently conflating it with people who send empty prayers to the victims of gun violence.
No. It’s not the same. At all.
When I had my stroke five years ago, do you guys have ANY idea how many people said they were praying for me. Hundreds. Probably thousands. Including an entire Buddhist temple. And we totally got where everyone was coming from. When faced with a situation where someone was ill, many people were resorting to asking God to give me a break. No one said, “Hey dûmbášš, if you weren’t morbidly obese you could probably have avoided this.” There is nothing wrong with evoking sympathy from a higher being when confronted with bad news.
The reason there is now backlash against offering prayers during gun shootings is because the politicians who are claiming they are praying are capable of doing so much more. The same people who claim that their thoughts and prayers are with the victims are taking thousands of dollars in donations from the NRA and doing nothing to try and address the problem directly. We don’t need God to step in and prevent shootings; we need the changes in gun laws that people have been demanding but are seeing squashed by the orange dûmbášš and his coterie of gun suckers. It’s a completely different circumstance from wishing for divine intervention to help a fellow human who is having medical problems.
I too wish Kevin Smith the best and a full recovery from his heart attack. And leave Chris Pratt the hëll alone.
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