In case you have not seen them around, there are a lot of pictures floating around Facebook and other social media sites of children suffering from diseases. Some of them show suffering, others show chaos, and still others have a simple picture of Jesus. However, they all share one important component in common: "1 like = 1 prayer. 1 share = 100 prayers." This is extremely insulting and worthy of nothing more than complete condemnation.

Atrocious grammar aside, if you believe prayer works, that is fine. Actually pray, though. Do not sit there and like and share a picture and pretend like you're doing anything to help that child by doing so. If you believe 100 prayers will help that child and you genuinely care, then do 100 prayers.

In that time you spent liking and sharing that post, you could have actually been doing what you said you did. God does not look at the number of shares a post gets to decide whether or not to intervene. The idea of this is simply crazy. Even worse is when money is involved.

No, Facebook will not donate $1 for each share the post gets. No, money will not materialize upon liking a post. Instead of clicking to like a picture intentionally designed to increase one's perceived popularity, you could have used that time to donate to Doctor's Without Borders, Women's Global Empowerment Fund, the ASPCA, or Saint Jude's Children's Hospital. That would have been more effective, and much more appreciated.

Exploiting religious devotion and the empathy of your fellow man for your own selfish ends is bad enough. My biggest problem is that it is exploiting a child's pain and misery for popularity; they beg for shares and likes on their page to make them more known, all on the dime of the poor child they exploited.

Instead of helping anybody, they help themselves at the expense of the both you and the suffering they used for their own ends. Do not feed into the click-bait.

Frankly, this trend is, all around, deplorable and sickening.

Please get that off my news feed. Thank you.