#prayer is useless

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"An alleged loving God that always waits for believers to beg and cry before it gives them what they need doesn't make any sense."

He likes to hear you beg.

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"If there were a good god, you would never have to beg him to do good things."

Does your omniscient, benevolent god not already know or not care? Why do you think he needs you to advise him? And what makes you think he'll listen to you when he's ignored everyone else?

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The Original Virtue Signal™.

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"No matter how you pray, or who you pray to, the result is always the same... nothing happens."

If prayer worked, it would be obvious which religion was the true one.

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Ancient Philosopher on Prayer

“Pray all you want - heaven can't hear you.

It's not going to stop the winter because you are cold, and it's not going to make the Earth smaller because you don't want to walk so far.

You pray for rain and it rains, but your prayer has nothing to do with it. Sometimes you don't pray and it rains anyway. What do you say then?

If you want to have a better life, educate yourself and think carefully about the consequences of your actions.”

-- Xun Zi, 312-230 BCE

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"Prayer is like a pump in an empty well, it makes lots of noise, but brings no water."

-- Lemuel K. Washburn

The difference is that with prayer, the empty noise is entirely the point.

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If it worked, we could tell.

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"You can pray all you want for god to move a mountain but until you bring a shovel and do all the work, it'll never happen. All prayers are unanswered."

-- Arne Hyman

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Matthew 17:20

"For verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

Dashrath Manjhi, also known as Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the state of Bihar. When his wife died in 1959 due to injury caused by falling from a mountain and due to the same mountain blocking easy access to a nearby hospital in time, he decided to carve a 110 meter-long (360 ft), and 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) wide path and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km.