Bill Roper's Journal

Why would you expect faith to affect the lottery if you don't expect it to affect hydrogen and oxygen?

This is, of course, assuming you actually had faith that you would win the lottery on Friday. I would suspect it might have been more in the nature of a cynical exercise in self-fulfilling prophecy, but I don't know you so I can't be sure. Personally, I've wished a lot, but churches and scientists all agree that wishing doesn't make it so, and I'm too much of a realist to achieve genuine faith in the random operation of a load of balls. If you managed it, then I admire your strength of will at least.

Sorry about this, but this is exactly the kind of can't-be-bothered-to-make-sense argument that puts me right on the side of the religious. If you're going to attack belief systems shared by vast numbers of people for the last two thousand years, you could at least have the courtesy to think a little about what you're going to say.