Prayer

[DrZoidberg]

Dogs can hear things not audible to the human ear.
Why would anyone assume our prayers cant be heard by a Higher Being?

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." Psalm 19:14 (KJV)

What's the medium of transmission? How does the neurochemical signals go from your brain, somehow manage to undetected get transformed into something that is carried outside the body, gets intercepted by something, in real time. That we can't detect. Not only that but it has to be accurately encoded and decoded at the point of interception.

Until Christians can come up with a theoretical framework for how it could be done... why are we bothering to entertain it as a viable theory? There's a staggering amount of steps and complexity to this.

Until I see a plan that doesn't rely on magic, I'm going to go right ahead and assume God can't read your mind. If you insist on being religious and want to believe in a higher power, why not become Pagan? The Pagan gods can't read minds. Makes more sense.

 

[ideologyhunter]

A bigger issue than the magic of a mind-reading god (I think he can fly, too, but I may be conflating him with Superman) -- this is a a god who, in 'his' recorded words in 'his' book is a racist killer who incites his followers to be racist killers. Deuteronomy, Numbers, Joshua -- chronicles of faith-inspired wars of extermination, or, to the extent they're fictional, aspirations of extermination. You can't be more racist than Biblegod.
Hash tag slavery, hell, capital punishment for picking up firewood on the Sabbath or touching the Ark, genital mutilation, a thousand other primitive Bible ideas that we all know are in there. Moral debauchery in general.