Not an insane line of thought in the least.

That worked perfectly!

The other prayer, not so much.

That sounds a bit threatening, doesn't it?

and people would have commented that someone was in need of mental help. Even the religious who saw such comments as outside the realm of how they see their religion.

That still happens to some degree, but more and more people will defend that line of er...reasoning...simply because they have become so tetchy about their own religion, having bought into the ridiculous lie that religion is under attack.

It's gotten to be more acceptable to defend, excuse, and even embrace the fantastical than to call it out for what it is - pure ignorance.

those prayers seem to have tongue tied Hillary and turned her into a blith - no that was Trump! Must've missed his target.

Needs to work on that aim a bit.

...they insist they know better than god what needs to happen. Sad.

Be good and pray, and you earn currency that can then be cashed-in for petty favors. That's the idea some people have, anyway. If it doesn't happen, it must be that they hadn't earned enough chips for the intervention requested, or those "mysterious ways."

but, they ain't too bright.