“A Georgia high school football player who came out of a
game with an injury and then lost consciousness on the sideline has died,
officials said. Dylan, a linebacker, was
transported to WellStar Spalding Regional Hospital and then airlifted to Grady
Hospital in Atlanta. He was pronounced dead Sunday night from a head injury. After Dylan was transported to the hospital,
players and coaches from the two teams came together and knelt to pray for his
recovery, Peach County High School said on Facebook.” (Marlena Baldacci, Devon M. Sayers and Eric
Levenson, CNN, Updated 8:49 AM ET, Tue October 2, 2018)
The Facebook pictures show both teams together on one knee with
all their coaches praying. Clearly folks
in the stands are doing the same. Once
again, sky daddy disappoints. They
prayed before he died. He died anyway.
Just received the list of prayer requests from my wife’s
church. Long list. I suggested we forward the list to those who
prayed for Dylan, but no, god did not listen to that crowd.
How much evidence will it take to convince people that
prayer is pointless because they are praying to an imaginary friend who never responds? If there was a god why wouldn’t he/she save
this young man? Nope, must be part of that
mysterious, mean plan of his.
So, go ahead and pray to the god of concussions, the god of
cancer, the god of ALS, the god of Alzheimer’s, the god of heart attacks. If you believe god is the creator of everything
he must have created these ills as well.
Prayer won’t help. Never
does. Sometimes I think the people who
pray are the ones who played without football helmets.
