But I am not making an argument for whether it's rational to believe in a god. I am merely accepting the fact that people believe what they believe and then moving forward from there.
If they believe that the Christian god has a plan and that they can convince it to change that plan by whispering to it, then so be it. It's not up to me to change them, and by all accounts prayer brings people comfort, so pray away.
I'm merely pointing out that "thoughts an prayers" isn't bereft of social context, and that to treat the axiom as if it is, well that's sort of inane.
If they believe that the Christian god has a plan and that they can convince it to change that plan by whispering to it, then so be it. It's not up to me to change them, and by all accounts prayer brings people comfort, so pray away.
I'm merely pointing out that "thoughts an prayers" isn't bereft of social context, and that to treat the axiom as if it is, well that's sort of inane.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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