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"Prayer helped Defoe bounce back" from the BBC today.

An article about a guy who used prayer to cheer himself up after being dropped from the world cup squad. This article really annoys me. Didn't Defoe remember that when he prayed to be a part of the world cup in the first place, and how his prayer wasn't answered. Didn't he get a clue that talking to yourself doesn't actually influence anything? How can people be so simple? It almost dismays me as much as people who are "miraculously" spared from a natural disaster believe it is God's work that they are saved. So God willed everyone else to die?

In other news, I wonder why God would put all of those fossils into the ground in order to make scientists believe the earth is more than 10000 years old. So God is deliberately deceiving us? Why make out that he isn't there? He is deliberately deceiving us in order to test our faith? So a perfect God is deceitful??? Why make us defective and then punish us for being defective? It makes no sense whatsover.

Must go now, I need to go and lift this thick fog with a prayer. I'm sure God will answer my prayer in a couple of days. If not, I am sure he is just testing my faith, and it'll come good in the end. Rant over.

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