Isn't prayer a contradiction?

[J.R. Braden]

That's exactly what I've been saying... and still my friends think the idea came from something else, beyond their own rationality, as I like to say.

For some reason, it's not apparent to them that THEY thought of the idea with their OWN brain.

It's made worse by the fact I know exactly what they're feeling because I used to be one of those schmucks who was certain that I couldn't have solved a moral dilemma on my own, even though I just did.

Then, of course, they try to tell me that I never felt what they were feeling because I would still be a Christian if I ever did... but I used to say the same thing.

Fucking tragic.