Everyone is different. If someone on SW asks me for a prayer for someone sick, I really stop, right then and there, and say a genuine prayer because I can feel their genuine pain. I do believe in the power of prayer to heal.

But I also have a cousin who hasn't ever bothered to call me. Her husband just died, and she is a diabetic who needs to have her foot amputated, and she has decided,(according to another cousin),to just let nature take it's course and allow herself to die of gangrene.

I sent her a card, that has all the appropriate sentiments, and I sent her money for her husband's funeral, for which she hasn't thanked me, but I just can't bring myself to genuinely pray for her. She has a child that is young enough to need care, and she has sent him off to stay with his older brother and has decided to orphan all of her children.

I can't bring myself to pray for someone so stupid and selfish.

They've taken the time to say something, and it's usually difficult to find the right thing to say, so, I guess they generally mean it. At least they are reaching out.

Yeah it's a nice gesture. THe issue is when it's the standard response to major tragedies that some political action could have prevented.

Trump says it and i bet he hasn’t said a single prayer his whole life so it’s just a formality.

It’s because they don’t know what else to say

I think they mean it, I do.

some will mean it

I think they're republicans.