Prayer
I've never quite understood it. Moreover, I'm sick of people using this idea to try to convince people that it somehow proves the existence of God.
Possibly the stupidest and best example I found was the following; "how do you think the Apollo 13 astronauts came safely back to earth? pretty much because everyone on earth prayed for them..."
It seems as though when something goes right and prayers were counted: "God did it"; and it is justified and everyone sleeps happily. But when something goes wrong there are alternative explanations as to how it happened: "God didn't want it to happen"; it remains consistent that life is driven under 'his' command.
God is supposedly not allowed to influence free will and yet people are often encouraged to pray for their environment and situation to become influenced under his will. If this 'divine plan' exists and God has a 'plan' for everyone, aren't we just robots?
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