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February 27th, 2012
04:48 AM ET
Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Monday, February 27
By Dan Merica and Laura Koran, CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog:  Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered a list of suspected abusive Catholic priests to be destroyed according to a 1994 memo. CNN: Attorneys: Cardinal ordered memo on priest destroyed CNN: Seven states sue government over contraceptives mandate CNN: Newark mayor urges probe into NYPD spying program Tweet of the Day: From @lukecoppen: Just posted: Morning Catholic must-reads: http://t.co/cp9YqdKU Enlightening Reads: Huffington Post: Police Spying Leaves New York Muslim Students 'Violated' Jewish Daily Forward: For Jews, Gross Case is Complicated Religion News Service: Richard Dawkins says he’s not entirely sure God doesn’t exist Quote of the Day:
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What is a prayer?
Why do people pray?
Consider this, what goes on in the minds of;
1. A Christian, a Moslem and an Animist observing a Hindu meditating? or
2. A Christian, a Muslem and a Hindu observing an Animist praying? or
3. A Christian, a Hindu and an Animist observing a Moslem praying and so on.
If we let these observers argue on whether a prayer is essential in our lives, what conclusion do you think they will arrive at? Remember only one of the four will probably be believing in a true religion but not at all or none of the four.
So since prayers will always continue whether or not we believe in true or false religions, let people continue praying as long as they feel they get psychological satisfaction in the act.
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer has been shown to have no discernible effect towards what was prayed for.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you fat.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes you secretively flatulent and embarrassed about it.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer has been shown to have no discernible effect towards what was prayed for.
Prayer gives you knobbly knees.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you post really stupid shit.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.
+1, yes.
I find it funny there is a link to the supposedly "new" revelation from Richard Dawkins. It is in no way new, and anyone that has read The God Delusion will know, has ALWAYS been his stand. In fact, any self respecting atheist says the exact thing. We can not prove he does not exist in the same manner that you can not prove he does. The whole thing about proving a negative. We just aren't arrogant enough to state our side as fact (of course there are a few). We can have our minds changed. It is just highly unlikely there will be any new evidence to do it.
Just because some one says it, does not make it true. Whoever wrote that article should be embarrassed.
The truth is the truth even if no one believes it. A lie is a lie, even if everyone believes it.
Sorry,
+ 1 here
The god Richard Dawkins probably does not believe in is fairly well-defined in his book. As Alister McGrath points out, it seems to be his personal god.
I think the term is "weak" or "negative" atheism when an atheist is unwilling to make the assertion that there are no gods.
A negative atheist refers "to a person who simply has no belief in a deity because there are currently no rational grounds that support [its] existence.
if you have the choice, what period of history would you choose to live in and why?
I'll go with now. The times are interesting. Everything we do matters. The stakes are high and getting higher. Besides, there is good dental and medical care.
Rome. Say, 3rd century C.E. What could be better than watching christians get eaten?
Absolutley today.
So exciting to have the CERN, and understand Cosmology, Big Bang, QM, etc, etc.
Besides, they have antibiotics. Most of us would be dead without them.
isn't it strange that when you ask people when/what time era they would like to live they seem to (majority rules) always pick the era that its easiest to die in not live in...or easiest to kill or watch the death of another in! just seems odd to me is all.
i would choose the early roman republic, before marius....or the old west right after the civil war ended, when it become the real wild west! Its funny to think that in 1865 the civil war ended, the first amercian bank robber was born – jesse james 1866 ...and then a mere 70 years later john dillinger who idolized jesse in the way he was during bank jobs.
I'd go back to the late nineties, form a band, "write" all of NIckelbacks songs and be a rich d-bag rockstar. Or maybe not.
@luncbreaker
That is referred to in time travel circles as the "puddle-of-nickel-creed-theory".
All the songs performed by those bands were actually written by a mildly reta.rded 13 year old boy in the year 2032, then sent back in time to a do.uc.he bag with a job in A&R at Sony records.
2500 or 3000, just to see what happens.
Prayer changes things
The statistical studies from the nineteenth century and the three CCU studies on prayer are quite consistent with the fact that humanity is wasting a huge amount of time on a procedure that simply doesn’t work. Nonetheless, faith in prayer is so pervasive and deeply rooted, you can be sure believers will continue to devise future studies in a desperate effort to confirm their beliefs.
nope
"nope
nope"
LMAO – more esperation from the xtians. LOL!
nope.
"nope
nope."
More desperation proving Nope's post is correct. LMAO!
nope .
6 Remember him—before the silver cord is severed,
and the golden bowl is broken;
before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,
and the wheel broken at the well,
7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Prayer takes people away from actually working on real solutions to their problems.
Prayer has been shown to have no discernible effect towards what was prayed for.
Prayer prevents you from getting badly needed exercise.
Prayer makes you fat.
Prayer wears out your clothes prematurely.
Prayer contributes to global warming through excess CO2 emissions.
Prayer fucks up your knees and your neck and your back.
Prayer can cause heart attacks, especially among the elderly.
Prayer reveals how stupid you are to the world.
Prayer exposes your backside to pervert priests.
Prayer makes you think doilies are exciting.
Prayer makes you secretively flatulent and embarrassed about it.
Prayer makes your kids avoid spending time with you.
Prayer has been shown to have no discernible effect towards what was prayed for.
Prayer gives you knobbly knees.
Prayer makes you frothy like Rick Santorum. Just google him to find out.
Prayer dulls your senses.
Prayer makes you hoard cats.
Prayer makes you smell like shitty kitty litter and leads you on to harder drugs.
Prayer wastes time.