Many people on lists I read and post to, mainly posters from the USA, will end their posts with some variant of “god bless” or “I’ll pray for you” in response to someone’s problem. If they think that praying to this god character is a productive use of time and that said entity will be able to help with the problem at hand then I’d like to know where it was when the problem started. If the entity could intervene to sort out, say an illness, then where was it when the illness started. Funnily enough they never seem to address this question. Double standards? Hypocrisy? Or fairy tales?