RE: Faith healing couple acquitted of manslaughter charges! How can this happen?
July 29, 2009 at 6:54 am
(July 28, 2009 at 9:12 pm)Pippy Wrote: Hey,
Rhizo, that is very much what I mean. Prayer, in it's good form, is a meditation, a tool for centering oneself. I appreciate your bible quotes, but I don't treat the bible as divinely inspired, so I don't take my definition of prayer from that religion. As always, I had to retort with someone for saying that prayer has no positive value. That is my only disagreement. Prayer can have no power for you, but you cannot make the claim that it has no power for anyone.
Bozo, why am I a fool? I tried to make a very clear point. I think it is foolish to claim prayer has no positive qualities. When it comes to prayer, you are not a fool? You are an atheist, I think if one of us is not understanding prayer, it might be you.
It's about controlling what you can, and not controlling what you can not.
It's having someone to talk too.
pippy, you asked the question and I answered yes. Praying is foolish and also dangerous. The fact that in all probability nothing is listening seals it for me. Dawkins reports in TGD about the Templeton attempt at proving that prayer works...it didn't!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
