RE: Did They Not Pray Hard Enough
July 31, 2013 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2013 at 8:49 am by Doubting Thomas.)
(July 30, 2013 at 11:23 am)Drich Wrote: No one said anything about reciting the Lord's prayer.
But yet they do, verbatim. I know plenty of Protestants who may pray "freestyle," but yet they do recite the Lord's Prayer, often after deriding Catholics for reciting their prayers (including the Lord's Prayer).
(July 30, 2013 at 11:38 pm)Ivy Wrote: God knows everything, right? He knows what you will do, say, ask, and everything that he will throw (or "allow") your way. There are no surprises.
I've often wondered this. Prayer is totally useless and a waste of time because:
If you pray for something to happen, and it's God's will that it happen, it was going to happen anyway. So praying for it to happen is a waste of time.
If you pray for something to happen, and it's not God's will, it will never happen anyway. So praying for it to happen is a waste of time.
God is supposed to be all-knowing, so if there is something in particular that you need, he already knows it. So praying for him to deliver, whether it's his will or not, is a waste of time. And frankly, what kind of sick fuck is God who knows you're starving but refuses to send you food after you pray for it?
Prayer is nothing but mental masturbation.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
