CourageAtheist,People who pray generally tend to be more optimistic and happier than those who don't. Try it for a while and you'll find out.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:57 AM, The Atheist <hmumia@gmail.com> wrote:--Folks,
What is all this prayer nonsense going on in Kenya? Pastors and religious leaders are purporting to be praying for the country. To some god!
While the main purpose of these prayers may be to help Kenya, they never demonstrably help. Prayers benefit only those believers who say or hear them. Prayer gives them comfort. It lets them think they have some control over a situation that may be out of their hands. It's the last resort of people who have run out of ideas, and the first resort of people who never bothered to think about how they could actually fix the problem at hand.
This is not harmless. There's a very real downside to praying. It lulls believers into a false sense of accomplishment. We cannot solve our problems – much less the world's – through prayer. We often see people with good intentions praying for victims in the wake of a tragedy, but prayer is useless without action, and those actions make the prayers irrelevant. To paraphrase the great Robert Green Ingersoll, hands that help are far better than lips that pray.
When it comes down to it, prayer is illogical, even in religious terms. If God has a plan, why try to thwart it? If God can be swayed by prayers, what kind of God would allow the horrors we saw at Westgate? I have no problem with "prayer" as an act of meditation. In fact, many atheists can tell you the benefit of silent self-reflection. The delusion occurs when you think someone else is hearing your thoughts and acting on them.
Prayer is nothing but a powerful placebo. We'd all be better off accepting that.
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