The common Christian answer, "But it's god testing our faith!"
Which begs the question, "If god is all-knowing, he should already know the answer!"
Then, on a tangent, they try to rebut with, "But it's caused by man's free will! Man is guilty of spreading it!"
They will never stop ignoring the obvious.

No, my friend, they will simply do as they always have done and blame it on the Devil instead.

People are afraid and turning to their beliefs for comfort. It's not at this point about logic or knowledge; fear is a powerful emotion. I won't belittle anyone for hoping and seeking reassurance that they and their loved ones will remain safe, even though I think their underlying faith is misguided and they're looking in the wrong place for solace.

Hey, the Lord has to have a hobby! Glory!

Umm, no they don't.

When I saw the shot of vp pence in the prayer circle before his initial covid meeting, I thought: I bet those fuckers are praying FOR the rapture, not for help or a cure. I have trust issues, I guess.

Maybe god wants to thin the herd to save his other creations ,so they should not be praying to interfere with his plan .

These are the people who read a book, in which the protagonist murders hundreds of thousands directly, indirectly causes the deaths of every human being that ever lives, and tortures most of them forever even after they die, and think he's the good guy.

Admit I love throwing their BS back at them. Do not fight against Gawd's plan. If it is his will that you die from his virus...

As @resserts says, fear is a powerful emotion. Moreover, it can swamp the rational thinking processes of even the most hard-headed and rational people. Now imagine what fear can do to people who are not habitually reasoned in their thinking.

No..you are quite mistaken, it will not change their beliefs, they will continue praying and continue believing. Oh it may make a few think hard about the futility of it all, but it will only be a negligible few. Praying and belief in god are habits learned in childhood in most cases, and are as automatic to them as breathing. Logic plays no part in this, because if it did there would be vastly fewer believers in the first place.

Wouldn't you as a parent prevent your kids from any sort of danger that could kill them?... Why pray to a God who allowed it to happen in the first place...

am relying on ignorance at this point of the conversation ...am alive and will always be that way....neve3r thought otherwise....

Why do we care what the theists think anyway?

Heathen!!

Just let them have the Rapture they have been praying for!!!

Serves them right to pray for something that they did not really want!!!

LOL!!!

Nah, it was probably the devil's work.

This post started to get me down a bit as I am just out of 2 week quarantine but it reminded me about this skit by Jim Jefferies. LOL

I'm waiting for some idiot to say it isn't up to us to know what he has planned (or something to that effect).

I find it ironic that a few have told me how this is the beginning of the end and they are not even claiming to be religious. OK, maybe they were once upon a time or they watched movies about the end that first appeared once we got into the atomic age. Who knows? As for praying to god I wanna know why he is going to change his divine plan because of you.