<div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/14 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 15px; ">I am against this problem a lot. I am in a motorcycle internet group. Sunday one of our best guys had a pickup truck turn left in front of him, hit the grill at about 60 mph. So far he’s lost a leg, a kidney, a spleen, broken both arms, plenty of other internal injuries including bleeding inside his brain, but he is still breathing. His daughter set up a website, in which scores of people have posted well-wishes. Of course most of them say they are praying for him. This I flatly refuse to do. I am fairly good with language, and I am very fluent in the language and thought patterns of the believers, but there just isn’t a very good way to write around the central issue of prayer. In those circumstances, any atheist-generated note of encouragement is conspicuous. </span></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Someone somewhere must have solved this problem, for it must be common.</span></p>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"I'm keeping you and your family in my thoughts. If there's anything I can do to help: cooking, chores, bedside vigil, etc., please don't hesitate to ask."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sure, it's obvious you're an atheist, but so what? It's nothing to be ashamed of.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div>