[quote=briansd1]Allan, I fail to see how your list proves that prayer is knowledge based.
Scientists who are Christians discovered many things. That speaks to the science itself, not to the religion.
In fact, those scientists knew that research and knowledge was more important than petitioning God for miracles.[/quote]
Brian: You completely miss the point. As I’ve stated earlier, my Jesuit education stressed that Faith AND Reason were the two wings that would carry you aloft. They do NOT exist independently of one another, they’re mutually supportive. Einstein himself posited an animating Force to the universe (“I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details”) and used this belief as an underpinning to much of his research.
I don’t believe in intercessory prayer, but I do believe in meditation and self-reflection and what you breezily dismiss as koo-koo is in fact the same as meditation and self-reflection, it simply goes by a different name.
For someone so committed to diversity and respecting the rights of others, you’re very quick to deride those whose beliefs you don’t like. There is very much an element of conceit in there, too, as it appears to be driven by the misapprehension that you are somehow better than they are. We’re all God’s children, dude, and none of us are better than anyone else.
