Why should God answer a prayer to get a job while atrocities happen everyday? (page 2)

I made this exact same point on Facebook. I got a slew of angry messages and I was not just unfriended but blocked by a small number of people.

Here is a meme that pretty much expresses what we are talking about:

BU2B, this is exactly how I feel too.

But Laverite - God obviously will not answer the sickly ychild dying of Malnutrition because

1. He is not a Christian so God can't help or listen to his prayerrs

This is pretty much what Job said: Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people.

It bothered his idea of what God was "about"?

Nothing got resolved, really. What he saw didn't tell him there was no God but it didn't inform him about how God relates to our actions down here.

I don't pray for touchdowns or parking places. I don't pray for a cure for my cancer.

I do pray for love, the ability to keep from freezing up in the face of futility. I do believe we have to love.

That was in the end the big thing Jesus said. Love each other.

That is a huge thing to do, actually.

It is a really huge thing to do. That is why I pray for help with it.

Prayer seems to be the alternative to actually doing something- at least for the "faithful".

BU2B Do you actually believe in a personal God and Devil?

Why should God answer a prayer to get a job while atrocities happen everyday?