I've been told this lots of times in the past, though thankfully it's not something I hear since my sweet Princess was stolen from me three years ago nor something to which I would take kindly in that context.
My only question, which I've mentioned before, is why do people who say it feel the need to do so? In other words, if praying for me would have any effect at all, why tell me about it? Wouldn't whatever it's meant to do simply happen anyway? Why should telling me about it matter in the slightest? The only reason that makes any sense - inasmuch as the word 'sense' can apply - is that it makes the person doing the praying, or at least announcing their intentions to do so, feel important, perhaps even superior to everyone else.
Basically there are three types of prayer. First, there's the "I'm special because I can talk to God" variety just described. Then there's the type in which the person truly has the best of intentions - whether or not they believe that praying actually works, their hearts and their sympathies are at least in the right place. Finally, there's the default form of prayer announcement which translates to "Yeah? Well, fuck you!" or "I've identified something broken in your character, some fundamental flaw which does not match up to my standards, so I am going to hide behind religious language in order to tell you this to your face."
My only question, which I've mentioned before, is why do people who say it feel the need to do so? In other words, if praying for me would have any effect at all, why tell me about it? Wouldn't whatever it's meant to do simply happen anyway? Why should telling me about it matter in the slightest? The only reason that makes any sense - inasmuch as the word 'sense' can apply - is that it makes the person doing the praying, or at least announcing their intentions to do so, feel important, perhaps even superior to everyone else.
Basically there are three types of prayer. First, there's the "I'm special because I can talk to God" variety just described. Then there's the type in which the person truly has the best of intentions - whether or not they believe that praying actually works, their hearts and their sympathies are at least in the right place. Finally, there's the default form of prayer announcement which translates to "Yeah? Well, fuck you!" or "I've identified something broken in your character, some fundamental flaw which does not match up to my standards, so I am going to hide behind religious language in order to tell you this to your face."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
