(August 17, 2010 at 12:57 pm)theophilus Wrote: Prayer is communication with God and whether a specific prayer is answered depends on whether or not God chooses to answer it.
How convenient for you to use such a bullshit statement to try and explain why praying rarely works for theists. Why does this god not answer prayers from mothers whose children die of a terminal disease but may answer the prayer from some douche asking for a new salary raise? Why would a benevolent being do this if he was all powerful?
Just accept it. There is no invisible sky daddy granting random wishes to random people. No matter how much you want it to be true. As the famous saying goes: "Two hands working can do more than a million clasped in prayer".
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
