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What's The Point of Prayer?
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Why do religious people pray?
It seems like a singularly pointless thing to do. If God is omnipresent and omnipotent, then He knows your deepest desires � you don't have to tell Him � He already knows doesn't He?
Actually, isn't praying the most presumptuous thing imaginable? Surely you're asking God to change His plan to benefit you specifically?
It seems like a singularly pointless thing to do. If God is omnipresent and omnipotent, then He knows your deepest desires � you don't have to tell Him � He already knows doesn't He?
Actually, isn't praying the most presumptuous thing imaginable? Surely you're asking God to change His plan to benefit you specifically?
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Actually, isn't praying the most presumptuous thing imaginable? Surely you're asking God to change His plan to benefit you specifically?
Imagining that there is an almighty god who takes any special interest in individuals at all is not only presumptuous, it's arrogant. Prayer, like religion in general, is wishful thinking.
Imagining that there is an almighty god who takes any special interest in individuals at all is not only presumptuous, it's arrogant. Prayer, like religion in general, is wishful thinking.