American Atheists Convention

[*michaelsean*]

(04-19-2019, 03:25 PM)Au165 Wrote: What's the deal with prayers? You often hear when someone is sick, keep them in your prayers but does the amount of people praying for something to happen matter like some sort of vote on limited god intervention for the week? Does god basically decide to help people American Idol style? Whoever gets the most prayers gets saved? If god doesn't answer said prayers you often hear "god has a plan", but if there was already a plan in place then why pray if the plan is already set? Wouldn't that then make prayer pointless?

The best answer that I can give you is that prayer is calling on the power of God, energy, the universe.  Whatever you want to call it.  You have the ability to control this power because you are a part of it.  So prayer should be less a request than an order, but very few of us truly believe or know we have this capability and so it's meaningless.  I certainly haven't been able to convince myself.  So thought creates action, but if you don't really believe it, then that is the actual thought.  

I don't know if this is a good example, but look at the Lord's Prayer.  Not once does Jesus ask.