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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I pray for comfort ,  peace and acceptance for those who are hurting. In return, I feel comforted. [/quote]

I feel like this is the best one could hope for.

I'm affiliated with a community of West African immigrants. They are the most devout, godly people you could imagine. Charitable, hardworking, and ALWAYS praying. And yet they are still poor, they still suffer higher instances of disease and disability, their loved ones still die of preventable causes back home.

I ask you, if prayer had any power AT ALL, why are these lovely, christ-like folks still suffering so much more than, I dunno, any member of the Trump family?  [/quote]

Dp, why do these people suffer a higher chance of disease and disability?[/quote]

Poverty. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to live in unhygienic or otherwise marginal housing, lack access to preventative care, and do dangerous work or work in dangerous conditions. Half of what we see in the ER-- the last chance for the most marginalized people-- is tied directly to poverty and desperation. Not choices, like drugs and bad driving and smoking and drinking, but just doing what you have to do to survive, like working 14 hours a day doing physical labor, injuries from work where power tools are provided but training and protective gear is not, treatable conditions that weren't treated due to inflexible work schedules or lack of ability to pay for care.

The hardest working people in America are the worst-off. No contest. And their bodies pay the price. 
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The Bible doesn’t say everyone will be rich. Nor does it say humans are immortal on earth. Nor does the Bible say that humans won’t get sick, get diseases, have accidents, etc.

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