Thoughts and prayers!

[Xeno.of.athens]

Is it enough to say

"our thoughts and prayers are with <insert people here>"​

and if it isn't then why is it said so often and not followed up with action?

Think of the school shootings, almost every time some politician says "Our thoughts and prayers are with them" yet they never pass a law to make them safer.

Is it like the empty "blessings" mentioned by saint James in James 2:14-17?

 

[Philip_B]

Whatsoever you beg of God, also work for it.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I think for most politicians it's a public relations line - Christian lip service for public consumption. I doubt if most of our politicians are practising Christians for a start, although I suppose I could be wrong.

Then again I'm not the one in the hot seat. If I was a politician where I live and there was a local school shooting, I'd have to think carefuly about what I said and did.

It would not matter if I was the federal, state or local member - it would still be a difficult time.

 

[Bob Crowley]

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and the community at this incredibly difficult time, but we also stand in solidarity with our police and the security personnel involved in this incident

I lifted this sentence from a news item tonight on ABC news. It has your favourite phrase embedded and could have been lifted straight from your copy book. It was related to an indigenous death in custody in the Northern Territory.

'Here we go again': Alice Springs at breaking point after death in custody

An Alice Springs town councillor and senior Alyawerre man says his town is at breaking point, after a young man died in police custody this week.

www.abc.net.au

I don't know what the politician's religious views are but I don't think she's a practising Christian, although I might be wrong. It's her views on abortion that make me doubtful. But apparently she still thinks her prayers are worth something.

Personally I think it's a political PR cliche.

 

[Clare73]

Not too sure what good "thoughts" are for the dead. . .

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Not too sure what good "thoughts" are for the dead. . .

Are they any good for the families of those who are killed?

 

[Clare73]

Are they any good for the families of those who are killed?

I see nothing in Scripture about the efficacy of good "thoughts."