"The concept of a bunch of people wallowing around on their knees and mumbling to themselves every time something bad happens, by way of finding a means of solving the problem does not seem productive to me, however."

I know a fair number of religious people, and none of them are like that. They tend to roll up their sleeves and get to work on the problem.

You seem to be building a straw man and then attacking that. No, I'm not trying to save your soul. I'm not in that bag. But I think that if you are so adamantly against something, you really ought to try to transcend your mistaken assumptions and learn something about it.

Don Firth