If you're an atheist, fine; but don't be a fool. Even if we don't believe in or expect divine intervention, some of us pray because that is a form of conversation that increases human self awareness in a non-egocentric manner and helps girds the loins of faith so that the human individual can act.
The alternative can often be a kind of nihilism. Good luck with that.
Prayer is an anthropological phenomenon; don't be blind to why we are religious beings just because you want to grow beyond one religious form to embrace another kind of relationship to the sacred; all humans are necessarily in some relationship with some kind of sacred. Prayer is about coming to understand and question that relationship.
Prayer works as well as republican economic policies.
ReplyDeleteIf you're an atheist, fine; but don't be a fool. Even if we don't believe in or expect divine intervention, some of us pray because that is a form of conversation that increases human self awareness in a non-egocentric manner and helps girds the loins of faith so that the human individual can act.
ReplyDeleteThe alternative can often be a kind of nihilism. Good luck with that.
Prayer is an anthropological phenomenon; don't be blind to why we are religious beings just because you want to grow beyond one religious form to embrace another kind of relationship to the sacred; all humans are necessarily in some relationship with some kind of sacred. Prayer is about coming to understand and question that relationship.