RE: Experiences with Prayer
October 29, 2010 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2010 at 7:04 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 29, 2010 at 6:54 pm)Jonah Wrote:(October 29, 2010 at 6:28 pm)Darwinian Wrote: If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference.
Mark Fairclough
That's what I don't get. It's not like God really gives a rip if I ask him to help me pass a test.
I guess prayer helps people feel like they have control over an out-of-control situation because they can ask a deity to intercede on their behalf. But, if God answers the prayers of your enemy, couldn't it be said that Satan was working against you?
It's all about self-deception in my opinion.
Yeah, if you need god answering your preyers to pass an exame, that means you need god to act like a Satan and screwed all the people who really knew the stuff by tempering with the score curve in your favor. But the cognative dissonance that allows a person born in the scientific age to believe in the literal truth of the bible probably wouldn't allow them to think too effectively about this quandray.
I can just hear the juicy obscurantist obfuscation now.
