Faint
Well-Known Member
To those of you who pray, why do you pray and how do you rationalize this?
1) Do you think that your prayers are heard and considered?
2) Do you think your wishes hold any sway on a higher power (like a child asking it's father for a new bicycle--"please please please can I have this", for example)?
3) When you speak of praying for someone in a bad situation, like Jill Carroll, or random disaster victims, why would you think the higher power would allow your desires to influence it's plan for everything (assuming it has a plan). In other words, if your god did not intervene to prevent something like the Rape of Nanking, 9/11, or the Indonesian tsunami, why would that same god heed your request to help those in need?
1) Do you think that your prayers are heard and considered?
2) Do you think your wishes hold any sway on a higher power (like a child asking it's father for a new bicycle--"please please please can I have this", for example)?
3) When you speak of praying for someone in a bad situation, like Jill Carroll, or random disaster victims, why would you think the higher power would allow your desires to influence it's plan for everything (assuming it has a plan). In other words, if your god did not intervene to prevent something like the Rape of Nanking, 9/11, or the Indonesian tsunami, why would that same god heed your request to help those in need?