So Bogdan,
Do you get mad a a sports announcer who reports your favorite team lost?
You get all excited and mad at me when I simply point out facts.
Are you saying all those religious leaders, all their followers and the millions who pray for peace every day are NOT sufficiently religious? And that is why there is no peace?
Multi-millions of Americans who WERE Christians ALL PRAYED and it did not work for them either.
Here is what Dan Barker, a former composer of Christians songs (around 100 written, published & still being sold) and a FORMER Christian Minister for many years said about religion and prayer.
When you read some of Dan's comments, below, you should remember he has most probably forgotten more about the Christian religion than most Christians will ever learn!
"It's not easy to change world views.
Faith has its own momentum & belief
is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown."
"For my money, I'll bet on reason and humanistic kindness. Even if I am wrong I will have enjoyed my life, the existence of which is under little dispute."
"The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions."
Here are some of Dan's comments on prayer.
"When not thinking critically, I assumed successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me."
"To think the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance."
"If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?"
Dan Barker
From his book, "Losing Faith in Faith"
available from http://www.ffrf.org
And since YOU posted a Mark Twain quote, so will I.
"Christians are all insane!"
Mark Twain
You are right, I do not have faith in things I either have knowledge of them or I do not.
How does pointing out facts about prayer even ome close to "belittling your ambitions"?
Bogdan, I was NOT putting down a particular person. Nope since it was YOU who DID that, here is a quote for you.
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
So Bogdan, go look in the mirror.
My comments were dealing with ideas as that is what religion is, an idea, a belief with no proof.
All religion has is faith and dogma. Were people not programmed into religion at a young age, very few people would be religious.
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