Praying to God is completely without facts. It’s a total waste of time that’s bordering on the delusional.[/quote]
Would have to disagree with Brian once again. (Allan is smiling)
Deep spiritual prayer is essentially meditation. Meditation is essentially mental exercise that help train the mind. Studies of all forms of meditation, from Taoism, to Buddhism, to Yoga, to Meditative prayer found in Islam/Christianity/Judaism, all points to stimulation and thicker areas in the frontal lobe that regulate emotion and cognitive planning. Essentially the meditation practitioner becomes happier by being able to control negative feelings and enhance positive feelings.
So there’s nothing wrong with prayer to a false god or allah. Because often times blind faith make these prayers work better. The problem just comes when different groups claim their false god is superior and the one and only. And that is the problem central to the Abrahamic religions.[/quote]
OCR: Smiling? Conservatives don’t smile! We gnash our teeth in rage, while attempting to stop all progress!
Interesting post. My favorite Catholic theologian, Thomas Merton, spent the last years of his life in seclusion at a Kentucky monastery (Gethsemane) where he studied Sufism (Islamic mysticism.) How one finds God, Allah, The Force, the Great Spirit or whatever one believes, is an intensely personal journey and shouldn’t be derided or mocked.
Brian hates Christians, so anyone holding that set of beliefs should be held as an object of ridicule, which then sadly overlooks nearly two millennia of knowledge, including the basis for the Western Canon.
