A favorite atheist quote of mine is “get off your knees and do something! Praying isn’t going to help.” Pat Tillman said it before he was killed in Afghanistan. I also found this:

Better off with bullets and missiles

Let 'em pray.

They should know by now that god DGAF.

Yeah.

God hasn't done a good job of that in previous wars, has he?

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Oh yeah , well here is my prayers too
I ll work hard to repeat in Italian and Greek too .

I don't get this pray for peace bullshit. According to their moronic beliefs, wasn't the same god, any god they believe in, the one who allowed the Putin invasion to happen? And now they are going to pray for peace to the same dude who let this happen????

I don't think thoughts and prayers are a part of this really, but after 4 days and getting nowhere Putin is putting his nuclear arsenal on standby. None of this looks good.

After so much tragedy in my own life, I get the whole "thoughts and prayers" shtick. Not for myself, but others seem to get strength and comfort and even hope from what I feel is silliness.

In this particular scenario, I sometimes wish thoughts and prayers worked for me because this is not only dire, but world altering and it's really scary, religious or not.

What a worthless thing to do.

My best to Putin,

Phew! I was worried about the Ukrainian people before, but now that I know people are praying I can sleep tight.

Wouldn’t it just be wonderful if we could pray away war!!!! We would have been done with that nasty business millennia ago!!!

If there were a god around, this shit wouldn't be happening.

A know of a few charities that are accepting monetary donations for humanitarian aide to Ukraine, so I WAS going to donate money... but if all they're expecting is for people to clasp their hands together and talk to the ceiling... thet would be even better!

prayer = wishing in one hand and spitting in the other to see which hand gets full first.

Nothing fails like prayer.
People have been "praying for peace" for centuries, and it's never done a fucking thing to end any conflict.