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Why do many Christians on here insist that prayer must be in supplication to God?
I received some really insulting and demeaning responses for saying that I pray to the whole of humanity in this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apr3U...
According to The Collaborative International Dictionary of English,Praying does NOT solely mean worshiping God, "prayer" is also defined as: 1. The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. 2.The form of words used in praying; an expressed petition. I was repeatedly asked who I am praying to (although the answer to that was quite clear in the question itself) and how can I pray if it's not to God? I say, REREAD THE DEFINITION OF PRAYER. Please. I can do it any time, sitting here, going there, whatever. I pray to the whole of humanity in the hope their actions and words will be utilized for the advancement and betterment of mankind.
I don't believe my prayer can be literally answered, but I believe it is metaphorically every day. The sole definition of an atheist is someone who does not believe in a god or gods, NOT someone who doesn't have the right to pray.
I am not personally offended so much as more and more cognizant of the need to stand up for myself, for atheism, for agnosticism, and for humanism. John Lennon bless the VLR!
4 Answers
- morgorondLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Because they're idiots who don't understand their own religion.
~Morg~
- 1 decade ago
So do you want us to say that you and other atheists can and do pray. OK, but praying to God does accomplish a whole lot more. You should try it. You will...someday.
- Candace ALv 51 decade ago
You talk about "insulting and demeaning" responses. Lets examine your prayer.......
Our father, who art in imagination
Fiction be thy name
Thy fundies come
And act real dumb
In life as well as Answers
Give us this day our daily dose of reality
And forgive us our rational
As we forgive Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny
Lead us not into self-rightenous
But deliver us from ignorance
For thine is the fairy tale, the ancient and the pretend, now and forever amen.
You whine about insulting and demeaning?? I wonder why.
- 1 decade ago
one can pray to whatever they want, a piece of wood even. doesnt make it right, but there's no reason you should have been insulted.
