(September 20, 2011 at 4:43 pm)Stimbo Wrote: the nation with the highest number of religious followers - thus by implication the highest volume of prayers per capita at least some percentage of which almost certainly come from victims referencing crime in one form or another - has the highest recorded crime rate on the planet.
Well it's too bad we could not have an accurate survey on what people pray about. I just merely suspect that most people who do pray usually pray about their own matters in life or do not concentrate their prayers on one particular goal as was accomplished in Washington.
*SIGH*
Religion has been quite misguided in revealing the true nature of prayer and meditation due to the culturally diversionary nature of global religion. If atheists are going to criticize anything, it should be that. Thus the cultural division of spirituality has indeed gotten many Christians to think that meditation is prayer. Is meditation not the concentration of thought at times, and at other times the concentration of calming the mind?