A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
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