Prayers for Peace....Can They Stop Terrorism?

[lared]

Many of the world's religious leaders met earlier this year at Assisi, Italy, to pray for peace. Can the prayers of religious leaders put a stop to such threats to global peace as war and terrorism?

 

[sulphur]

I have just watched the latest news from Bali .Many young people were killed. It was a coming of age thing for many Aussies.I feel very sad for the innocents

 

[amie]

Originally posted by sulphur
I have just watched the latest news from Bali .Many young people were killed. It was a coming of age thing for many Aussies.I feel very sad for the innocents

I am sorry sulphur



Back to the main question...I personally believe in the power of prayer however I don't necessarily think the threats will end. There will most likely always be that in the world...sad but true...

 

[Marcel]

Do you really want to hear an atheist response to this?

I think we'd all like to think we'll have worldpeace one day...

...as long as you'll even find people on these boards proclaiming to have an outlook on life superior to other's...
...little chance I'm affraid

 

[Gunny]

Originally posted by Marcel

...as long as you'll even find people on these boards proclaiming to have an outlook on life superior to other's...
...little chance I'm affraid

Your statement does nothing but declare your own.

Gunny out.


MT 24:6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

MT 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

MT 24:8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by Marcel
Do you really want to hear an atheist response to this?

I think we'd all like to think we'll have worldpeace one day...

...as long as you'll even find people on these boards proclaiming to have an outlook on life superior to other's...
...little chance I'm affraid

What do you mean by "Do you really want to hear an atheist response to this?"

hmm nevermind

 

[smurfy2day]

I believe there is power in prayer, but I also believe in divine appointment, and that in that, no matter what, God's will, will be done....

 

[amie]

Originally posted by gunnysgt
Your statement does nothing but declare your own

His statement does nothing of the sort.

 

 

[Marcel]

Originally posted by seesaw
What do you mean by "Do you really want to hear an atheist response to this?"

hmm nevermind

That's why I was in doubt about whether to post on this thread or not...

You could've posted the thread in a Christians only section of the beoard.

 

[Marcel]

Originally posted by gunnysgt
Your statement does nothing but declare your own.

Gunny out.

Could you point out the bit, where I claim to have a superior outlook on life?

Or are you shooting blanks there?

 

[Caffeine Socialism]

Prayers... no. Doing something... yes.

 

[Dewjunkie]

Unfortunately, there will always be people driven by less than ideal goals, and there will always be people who feel violence is the only way to achieve them. Prayer will certainly not hurt the cause, as God is capable of anything.