'It's not about absolving ourselves of responsibility; that responsibility was never ours in the first place, we awarded it to ourselves because of our egos. If we try and intervene through the use of magic, we're trying to take on a role that only belongs to God. Trying to usurp God's power was what got Satan into trouble in the first place, and look what he lost as a result. I know you don't believe this, but you not believing it doesn't affect the truth of it; only God can show you that, my words won't convince you. '
But surely by asking god to intervene you are making a choice about what to present before God as something to intervene in. Certainly God will make the final decision, but by Christian thinking, surely it would be presumptious to ask God to intervene, when God would be making that decision anyway, being all knowing and all powerful. Asking the Goddess to aid in 'our rites' would be an invitation to influence the outcome, thereby providing divine approval or disapproval. Slightly different in that respect as the Goddess would not necessarily be considered as all knowing.
'trying to bring about a result through magic is like a candle trying to compare itself to the Sun.'
Not with deity invited to aid the rites. But there will obviously be disagreement there as a Christian perspective would see this as an appeal to a false God.
But these are definitely differences in religious perspective. They also differ to my religious perspective.
BB
Mike