Prayer?

[memphis]

What's the deal? Do people believe that it's going to change anything?  Case in point: Local high school kid was diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, which repeatedly made the local news because it's a guaranteed death sentence, it's very rare in somebody so young, and it's a story that's guaranteed to draw a lot of attention. So the whole town is praying for this kid. Thousands and thousands of people. Well-meaning people, many of whom don't even know this kid. Anyhow, the kid died today. And I'm not trying to crap on a well meaning community who had no effective means to change the outcome for this poor kid. I just don't see what all the prayer was about. If I were the one with a terminal disease, I'd want all those people to give money to charity to fight the disease, or volunteer to work with sick people to make them feel better. Anything but prayer. It's just the laziest, most worthless thing one could do. But I guess it made the prayerful feel better about themselves.

[memphis]

I believe everything about what will happen in our lives is already set in stone

That seems awfully depressing. May as well go play in traffic if everything is pre-determined.