Why worry about the future if they say the world will end soon?

[Sheldon]

@nonselcei

There is a fine line between magic and prayer of this sort.

I see no line of any sort, fine or otherwise, magic is exactly what such claims are appealing to,

Magic
noun

1. the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

@nonselcei

I am sure sometimes it ‘works’ and other times it does not!

Indeed, and how do you differentiate between the two results?

@nonselcei

Of course its a miracle, if and when the weather happens to change after such statements.

I am dubious, as that looks suspiciously like a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, and most especially since the very definition of a miracle, is itself an argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy.

miracle
noun

1. an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency.

@nonselcei

I have also read about Hindus claiming one could obtain siddhi powers after doing rituals, or chanting mantras for some particular amount of time.

I have read about Superman and Spiderman, this doesn’t make the claims true.

@nonselcei

The number of times to obtain siddhi is often in the millions.

Can you objectively evidence just one for us please, otherwise this is just a bare appeal to numbers, and it would be fallacious to argue the number of unevidenced claims makes them more likely true.

@nonselcei

One power is the control over weather,

I don’t believe this to be true, what objective evidence can you demonstrate to support this claim?

@nonselcei

another is the power to do anything one desires to happen.

Again this hyperbole seems risible, when the claim is all that is being offered.

@nonselcei

Its a bit different from Christianity, as mantra ideally is to bring one in alignment with the divine.

Yet they are both unevidenced superstitions, that make fallacious appeals to magic.

All talk of the divine is meaningless to me, unless you can demonstrate sufficient evidence, and sufficiently objective evidence, a deity exists, or is even possible, can you do this?