(August 22, 2013 at 2:07 pm)gall Wrote:(August 22, 2013 at 2:04 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's essentially talking to God, there are various different ways you can pray it doesn't always have to be verbal or asking for something particularly.
So one is more valid than the other invalid ways it gets nothing done but spend your time talking to your imagination?
Prayer isn't to be confused with magick. Magick is where you attempt to invoke God or some other supernatural being to bring some form of change into the physical universe through elaborate rituals and incantations and such. The Catholic Church is I suppose more into that kind of thing if you think about it.
There is such a thing as "petitionary prayer" but that tends to involve asking God to grant you the strength to do/not do something, strength to endure some kind of misfortune and so on. But prayer does have a real demonstrable physiological effect some kind it's certainly not "imaginary" as you claim. If were just imaginary I should think people would have realized this and stopped doing it thousands of years ago.