(August 19, 2019 at 9:07 am)Drich Wrote:(August 9, 2019 at 12:22 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Prayers obviously don't work so why do religious still keep doing it? Are they insane because you know the definition of insanity according to Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
There was even that multimillion dollar experiment by religious people that ultimately proved how praying doesn't work. Maybe religious people haven't heard about it and that's why they still believe in prayer, but still they had to know when they saw how their own prayers don't get fulfilled.
Still here's Richard Dawkins' description of that prayer experiment:
those are not prayers.
Jesus Christ gave the one and only example of a christian prayer. if it does not follow the out line he gave it is known as a petition. God is not obligated to petitions as he has promised to answer prayers. While all prayers are answered petitions are answered based on his time table and predetermined will.
Why do Christians petition God? because somethings are there for the asking.
Then "prayer" according to you consists of only one prayer and is thus useless for anything. Just mindless repetition of useless formulaic words that have become so automatic that they have lost all meaning.
And of course, you took that from your magic book out of context. When asked in said stupid book, jesus provided an illustrative example, not a proscriptive instruction. You are so dense you can't grok that.
