(August 21, 2013 at 11:39 am)Stimbo Wrote: When toddlers sit on Santa's knee and tell him all the things they want for xmas, we take photos and post them on Facebook for everyone to go "aw, how sweet!" We as nominal grownups know the cold reality behind their innocent fantasies.
When grown adults kneel in serried ranks and do the same thing, we are expected to believe that this really works, that it has power to petition ultimate mercy and all that crap. Anyone who dares to say that, actually, this is pretty pointless is denounced as the abnormal one.
It's a funny old world.
Prayer works for me because when i pray, i am communicating with God. I, however, do not expect you to believe prayer works. If you did think it worked, you would no doubt pray.
