(June 20, 2014 at 12:46 pm)BlackSwordsman Wrote:(June 20, 2014 at 12:32 pm)Irrational Wrote: As someone who used to be a Christian, you couldn't be further from the truth. Also, nothing psychologically wrong with praying. It's really a meditative act. Plus, most Christians who pray to God don't claim that they can see or hear God.
I beg to differ, praying is nothing like meditating. Praying in christian terms is about asking a divine being for material things or worldly possessions, usually stemming from a desire of some sort.
Meditation at least when taught properly is about pushing out desire, relaxing the mind, ever notice the music, or chanting involved in meditating? It's so that you focus on the sound and push thought out so you are focused.
I think there is something completely psychological about the neurological process of
"if your thinking is not my thinking, you will burn in a fire forever!"
"You must believe that *insert magical being* snapped his/her/its fingers to create it all"
"talking to invisible things"
Doesn't sound very psychologically sound to me.
But that is my perspective which is completely subjective
Take it from me. Many Christians don't seriously believe all that.
Also, not up to you to make these diagnoses about others.