If you're impregnated by rape are you allowed to pray for a miscarriage?

If God answers his prayers, the rapist will have one less thing to worry about aside from a likely prison sentence, that being the unspeakable horror of mandated child support payments.

"God must've wanted me to have the abortion because He put the Planned Parenthood phone number right in the phone book!"


Duh.

God, on the other hand, is in charge of rapists

a person would begin to wonder if the sky fairy they believed in existed at all.

So next time you think about praying or do pray, remember this.


God has this divine plan that is in motion and all worked out right? So if you are to pray to him for something, any prayer that would be granted would deviate from his "divine plan".

So it's either one of two things. Either God doesn't give a fuck about you because he already has it all worked out what will happen and ignores any and all prayers. Or, he really isn't this omnipotent being and is a wishy washy failure who doesn't have a plan at all.



It has to be one or the other, you pick

He's powerful, but a little slow. It might not have occurred to him that you would prefer that your spouse survived the operation. And world peace... well, some things require a little nagging.

to thank him for all his "gifts". God knows best and to ask for an alternative to his wise gift would just piss him off.

because after all, it was His will that you be raped in the first place.

to have independent thoughts, praying on your own is illegal. Did you not get the rule book?

http://www.theopedia.com/Imprecatory_Psalms

My understanding is that it is generally frowned upon, especially if the sentiment arises from a need for personal revenge. One should pray to God to take care of the matter in his own way.

It is a thorny theological issue. If you see the fire trucks racing down your street, is it OK to hope it's your neighbor's house and not yours? Technically, that's not allowed (as I understand it). You can pray for the fire to be put out quickly and for no one to be harmed.

Disclaimer: I am an atheist who suffered through a rigorous Catholic upbringing.

I find that the Jesuitical rigor of a couple of thousand years of philosophy has little relevance to the American religion which is more like a Manichean TV series where God and Satan are independent forces, fairly evenly matched, but that God prevails at the end of each episode.

It's like wrestling, except with Jesus winning every match.

However, I love poking at the theology. I have a close friend who is a former priest (also now an atheist). I can usually get the book version from him. Even he could not give me a straight answer on imprecatory prayer OR what happened to the damn babies when they got rid of limbo.

Apparently there is also a wacky group of ultra-montanists who claim that every Pope after Pius XII was a false pope, so none of that Vatican 2 stuff counts.

The church is an endless source of amusement to me, and of misery to most.

as part of the deal. (seriously) And, in the process, made baptism kind of a waste of time... unless fetuses go to heaven but unbaptized new-borns go to Hell.

At what age does the fetal immunity expire?

See, the rapist was doing gawd's will. He was literally an instrument (heh) of gawd.

So you have to pray for him since that pregnancy is a gift dammit.

You are however, allowed to thank gawd for the "gift".

Legitimate rape and all

Then that must be God's will too.