(May 11, 2015 at 1:33 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: If god is all seeing and all knowing, what is the point of praying? he knows what you want to pray about anyway... why waste his time telling him things he knows anyway? (and why do you have to go to a church to do it if he is everywhere?)
Although you are quite right in what you are suggesting, it is even worse than that. One is trying to get God to do things, as if one knew better than God how things should go!
In other words, prayer is a kind of blasphemy, as it implicitly suggests that one is wiser than God!
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
