What does the Lord hear?
In unison, the opposing teams might pray “Lord, we pray that you will give us the victory and let us knock the snot out of those other guys.” Christian Broadcasting Network President Pat Robertson prays that a hurricane would veer away from the CBN’s offices in South Carolina and it does, only to hit and kill people in New Jersey. Even Adolph Hitler said that God was on his side. In his book OUTRAGE: FIVE REASONS WHY O.J. SIMPSON GOT AWAY WITH MURDER agnostic lawyer Vincent Bugliosi writes “Saying that ‘God answered my prayers’ necessarily means two things: that God has the power to answer prayers, and more important, for the 99 percent of the other humans who pray and beg for God’s merciful intervention in time of desperate need, God told them to take a walk, get lost, He couldn’t care less.” With the critical and logical mind of a cynical lawyer, Bugliosi continues by asking “Don’t you think the Jew at Auschwitz prayed to God to be spared. Maybe we have been praying to the wrong enti