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is collective prayer any more effective?

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is collective prayer any more effective?
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RE: is collective prayer any more effective?
June 10, 2016 at 2:28 pm (This post was last modified: June 10, 2016 at 3:04 pm by robvalue.)
(June 10, 2016 at 2:24 pm)Losty Wrote: Actually everyone cannot. As far as I can tell, you have to believe in God to be a Christian. Not everyone can fool their brains into believing in things they know to be nonsensical.

It's a difficult one. I'd say that to be a Christian, legally speaking, you just have to say you're a Christian.

I don't see what other meaningful sense there is, since no one has the authority to say who is and isn't a Christian. And no one can (easily) test your beliefs.

So it really means nothing concrete, it's just a statement of being in a certain religion. I can say I'm one right now. Sure, everyone will say I'm not a True Christian™ but Christians say that to each other all the time.
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RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by madog - June 10, 2016 at 2:25 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by Losty - June 9, 2016 at 11:40 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by Sterben - June 10, 2016 at 12:08 am
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by madog - June 10, 2016 at 5:42 am
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by Drich - June 10, 2016 at 8:34 am
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by Losty - June 10, 2016 at 2:24 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by robvalue - June 10, 2016 at 2:28 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by Cato - June 10, 2016 at 2:31 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by lisah - June 14, 2016 at 7:27 pm
RE: is collective prayer any more effective? - by IATIA - June 14, 2016 at 7:49 pm

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