(February 9, 2014 at 3:16 am)Rayaan Wrote: 1. Have any of you atheists here while you were an atheist, prayed to God (or gods) in certain circumstances in your life, especially like in desperate times or in troublesome times?At primary school we did like 1 min silence everyday to pray and then a joint prayer. The silent one I took the opportunity the first few days I was at the school and then figured it didn't work. The 2nd I went along with because otherwise I'd lose my lunch break!
I replaced most of the daily expression that are like mini prayers with phrases from TES games. Its nice to see peoples reactions when I say "By the nine divines!"
(February 9, 2014 at 3:16 am)Rayaan Wrote: 2. A small percentage of atheists said that they do pray (at least weekly or monthly) even though they don't believe in God. Are those people really atheists, then?
I can understand pleading for the universe to cut you some slack. Life is unrelenting and sometimes overwhelming. I imagine if you grew up in a religious family then calling the universe god and praying probably comes pretty naturally.
I don't bargain with my enemies, I plot to destroy the universe. Its all imaginary but it works for me
