Prayer

[Pat Mustard]

So does the roman catholic church, by the way. It's just that most catholics are embarrased by that nonsense.

Edit: thinking about it more many catholics I know who squirm mightily if reminded of that type of prayer still regularly go into church pay €0.20 to light tea candles and pray for wealth, jobs, surgeries to go right etc. So for a lot of people the embarrasment is in having to qcknowledge they believe nonsense.

Incorrect. As usual. 

Honestly, you spew so much false information about Catholicism here. If you don't know anything about something, don't talk about it. It just makes you look dumb.

You rally do know fuck all about your religion don't you. You've gone the a la carte route completely, keeping the bits you like about the religion and blanking out the stuff you don't like. Yes, the church teaches that shit, even now. Why else have the banks of prayer candels right next to the altar? Why else have the prayers of the faithful (usual mix, one prayer of heal the world, two of protect the church and three of do good things for named parishoners)? Fuck it, why have saints in the pantheon to answer prayers for health, wealth and lost car keys?

CL just like it's inadvisable to get into a knife fight with a Sicilian, you shouldn't argue rcc doctrine with an Irish atheist. Most Irish atheusts are so because they've been catholic, had a good hard look at the bible, the cathechisms, the dogma and all the other bullshittery and said "fuck this for a game of soldiers".