Commentary: Democratic Christians undermine the faith by using it as a political weapon

"What good are your thoughts and prayers?"That's a strange question for a Christian to ask. Yet, that was the question[1] from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday night after a gunman massacred worshipers in two New Zealand mosques."Thoughts and prayers" has become a source of mockery from liberals over the years who have made the phrase synonymous with conservative resistance to stricter gun control laws. This type of mockery makes sense coming from nonreligious people. Why would they value prayer if they don't believe in a God who might answer?But when this particular jab comes from someone who associates themselves with Christianity[2] and quotes scripture publicly to make points, one must wonder about the nature of that person's faith. Far be it from me to tell someone whether they are Christian or not, but it is fair to evaluate a person based on their words. If you believe in God as He is revealed in the Bible, you shouldn't be able to sincerely question what benefit prayer might have. Additionally, if you believe (and have a reasonable understanding of) the Bible, you won't use a single tragedy as an opportunity to point out how prayer doesn't work. Even well-educated nonbelievers typically know better than to use that sort of feeble logic to argue against God or Christianity.Now, I'm not naive. I understand what Ocasio-Cortez was doing; she's simply joining in the stampede of politicians eager to use any news event, no matter how sensitive or tragic, to gain some attention and score political points. So she reached as far as she could in order to somehow connect an overseas massacre to the National Rifle Association, while also branding "thoughts and prayers" as an NRA invention. It's all a bit ridiculous.But it stood out to me, maybe more than it normally

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