"Dear God, thank you for sending Lisa to protect us from the bug you sent."

Rod Flanders, brilliantly summing up the braindead religious right.

This is His plan so this is what He wanted. People are actually being disrespectful when they pray.

If it is part of their god's plan, what do they think their prayers are going to do? Cause it to change his mind? Alter its plan?

Apparently, this god likes to see its creation grovel before it; and, even then, it may, or may not, change its mind; but, whatever happens--give god the glory, eh?

I've had this same question for the last 15 years or so. I never liked religion, but was still questioning if there was really any kind of a god. But questions like yours has convinced me there is no god. Especially when I see pictures of starving children who suffer the worse kind of death ever while some pray, thanking god for their food. Is a god that picky about who eats and who doesn't?

Sadly, yes they do believe it.

Let them it doesn't work

Logic is not their strong suit.

It's craziness. Like that's going to do anything at all! All the "miracles that happen" supposedly in the name of prayer were just going to happen anyway. Not really miracles. And they are usually small things that get "answered": lost car keys, needing money...but something truly a miracle (regrowing limbs, protecting people from the holocaust) not a chance. Somehow finding car keys are more important to God.

"Let's all sit and pretend" day.

There is a flaw in your post. You assume that such people think.

Praying hasn't stopped all the senseless gun violence. What makes them think that it will save them from COVID?

If there were god, as they are convinced, why "in god's name" would he/she/it have given us a Donny Boy?
They are not interested in how the world works, only in how their fairy tale says it does.
"If you cannot tell the difference between divine intervention and random stupidity, then there is for all intents and purposes no divine intervention."
“Delusion has the characteristic of blindness, of not penetrating reality, of covering the true nature of experience, of fostering unwise attention, of causing deluded action.”
The Evangelicals are afraid of uncertainty, the unknown, and fall back on biblical myth for calming their fears.
"You can not reason a man out of a belief he was not reasoned into."

Everybody knows prayer works 100% of the time...nod nod wink wink.

If 90% of them die, it will be God's Will and he loves us. He needed those people in heaven.
If 10% live....it'll be a Miracle...Hallelujah, there's your proof that he exists!

The only thing that is pre-ordained, is the win- win scenario they keep coming up with. It's already canned and in the bank

Searching for logic where none is to be found? To me it's just plain stupid. They'll end up having to deal with it.

None of it makes any sense. Not even close. Not even close to close to close.........