Do Atheist Pray

Great Response Joe! I enjoyed reading your view, because I was just joking. But thanks for your comments on prayer. Your view of prayer was very limiting though. I do not pray simply to get things. I actually pray to form a relationship with my creator. I think that praying just to get things and solve problems is okay, but that is what you do early in a faith. A relationship is really the goal. I have had prayer answered in my life with out any effort on my own or others. I've seen situations that should not have worked themselves out actually work out. I've also had prayer answered in my life that I had to work at. Just cause I had to work at something does not mean a prayer was not answered. I don't believe in praying and sitting and waiting. Prayer does not limit my actions but actually gives me courage to take on the action. If the church is God community then maybe prayer is answered sometimes by means of the community in action. We in the church pray yes! But we also act! It is the Hands and feet idea that you have prob heard about from your upbringing in Church.

My prayer is not simply a childhood act toward a parent. I would never have shared the things that I share with God with my parents. My deep inner sins, my personal conflicts, my desire to know them intimately. None of these would I have talked about with Dad or Mom. I would have been afraid they would ground me! :-)

Prayer is essential to the life of a believer, but misunderstood by those outside of the faith. It is a discipline that takes time to develop and you don't get instant response always but sometimes you do get a response and when it comes you have no doubt that it was the hand of God.