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05 Jan 2010, 11:27 am

I don't believe in God or any transcendent entity, except, possibly, the physical universe. But, as the late Carl Sagan said, it isn't much use praying to the Law of Gravity, or something similar.


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05 Jan 2010, 7:29 pm

I do. It makes me feel better.



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05 Jan 2010, 8:10 pm

I was raised catholic. I was taught that if you pray to help people, not for personel gain, God will answer those prayers because you are praying to help others.

My Dad was very sick when I was 9. He was recovering from heart surgery. So I prayed very hard to God to help my Dad get better.

One week later my Dad was dead.

I thought if you pray to help people, God would answer those prayers, not do the total oppisite of what you asked Him for.

Since then I have not prayed much if at all. God screwed me. Praying is a total waste of time.

Until God comes down and tells me why he let my dad die, gave me AS so i would not have anyone special in my life, and why he gave me dietbaties I want nothing to do with God.



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06 Jan 2010, 10:50 am

KenM wrote:
I was raised catholic. I was taught that if you pray to help people, not for personel gain, God will answer those prayers because you are praying to help others.

My Dad was very sick when I was 9. He was recovering from heart surgery. So I prayed very hard to God to help my Dad get better.

One week later my Dad was dead.

I thought if you pray to help people, God would answer those prayers, not do the total oppisite of what you asked Him for.

Since then I have not prayed much if at all. God screwed me. Praying is a total waste of time.

Until God comes down and tells me why he let my dad die, gave me AS so i would not have anyone special in my life, and why he gave me dietbaties I want nothing to do with God.


and i can relate to that also, but in my case - it is WHY did i end up with learning disabilities, WHY did i end up with emotional disabilities, WHY did i end up with epilepsy, WHY did i end up with aspies, and last of all - WHY did you not cause my mom to have a miscarriage to spare me of all this???



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06 Jan 2010, 10:56 am

coregazer wrote:
Thrice as of today that I can remember... I... don't really believe in god... but... the two times I can remember asking the big man upstairs for something.... it happened O_O... probably why I remember them.... sure I've probably done it once or twice more and had it not work out, but hey, always healthy to talk to someone about things, even if it's just yourself :).

(I'm open minded, so I'm very willing to believe in god... but don't have any real evidence.... except for the fact my prayers were answered twice in the past.... still, I want logical evidence! xD)


i too want logical evidence - something i can possibly believe - but faith is not enough - trust is earned and logical evidence will help build trust - BUT faith just gets jack.



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07 Jan 2010, 8:05 am

I pray in the evening and when I go somewhere in the car.



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08 Jan 2010, 4:02 pm

I do a lot of praying, and it does make my life a lot easier. I've really got into the praying in September, and it's worked wonders. Look at how far I've come, since than. :)


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