(August 15, 2014 at 3:26 pm)Michael Wrote: Look at who does most work for charity. Prayer stimulates concern for others, and action fir others. Even people like Richard Dawkins have said that atheists need to find a way if galvanising themselves to do charitable work in the way theists do.
So you have a nice turn of phrase. But it's been rather mugged by a gang of ugly facts.
You're conflating the *act* of prayer and it's efficacy with the *actions* of humans and those action's associated efficacy.
The point being, the *act* of prayer is indistinguishable from doing nothing at all, vs. the very real and tangible results from humans actually doing something.
