Pray for the Iraqi People

momma, you were asking on another thread why nobody that is all concerned about iraqi people there (on that thread) has posted here. well, i'll tell you why i haven't until you wrote that. i am tired of religion being stuffed anywhere i look. i have a feeling it will even be in my fridge when i open it.
you say, ignore the christian threads if you don't agree...and then you're miffed we're not posting in 'let's pray for iraqi people' thread.... ummm, why?

i feel mine, yours, nobody's prayer is going to do a whole lot for iraqi citizens. it's more useful to exert energy in direct efforts to help - write senators, donate to organizations working there, etc. it may feel good, but it don't do squat.

Hey Lord, what's the deal for today? You know you keep wanting us to like you, well, actually you want us to love you and yet you keep letting innocents be killed and maimed in horrific ways. Why is that? I suppose there must be a lesson which we humans are supposed to be learning here but I have to tell you, all the bloodshed starts getting to be too much.

You know I've put this plea before you in the past Lord...how about just one solid day...you know an Earth length day of 24 hours with no death by guns or violence and no violence either. Maybe that's what us dimwitted people need. A day where we get to see how nice peace and calm are and then we'll want it all the time and will finally get our act together and put away our means of destruction...then maybe we can get going again on that world hunger mess.

Oh yeah, I know Lord...if we get to that point there won't be a purpose for us to live anymore in soul holders since we will have learned our lessons and learned them well. But come on, how about it? There are little children over in the area you used to be so nurturing of...down around the Tigris and Euphrates who could really use some help here before another one gets an arm blown off or sees their mom or dad or brother or sister or anyone else getting killed.
Sure it's a lot to ask for but something tells me you could do it so how about it?

Maybe just start with one of those war ravaged areas...a place like Iraq where the people have endured hellish tortures and deaths for decades now. Come on Lord, just a day where I can see the television news or open the paper and find out nobody got killed...at least for one day.

Please?

Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster,
It has occurred to me that I am completely useless at creating prayers, so instead I'm writing this post as a prayer for the Iraqi people.

As much as we'd all have liked it if the Western powers had paid attention to Lawrence of Arabia's suggestions of how to carve nations into the Middle East, instead of putting tribes who hate each other into the same country, we all know that going back into time to change things is impossible or at least won't affect us nor the current Iraqi people in any way.

As if Winston Churchill ordering the Kurds in Iraq to be gassed and bombing them because they wouldn't follow his will wasn't enough, somehow the US helped Saddam do exactly the same thing.

It is clear the Western powers really shouldn't be sticking their noses into this region, because clearly somebody isn't learning from history.

May your noodly appendages find some way to help the poor, suffering Iraqi people. Also, if you could find some way of helping out the Palestinian people, the Saudis, the innocent Israelis that are willing to work meet halfway, the Iranians, the Pakistanis who still don't have decent shelters after that horrific earthquake, the Egyptians, the Indonesians, the innocent people in Guantanamo Bay (i.e. not the guilty ones) and that berk down the road (so help me, if he cranks up the volume of his radio to antisocially loud volumes again I'll beat the bejesus out of him!), that would be nice.

Seriously, though, help the people of the Middle East and all those countries that are still suffering from the errors made in the first half of the Twentieth Century. I'm not kidding.

Ramen.