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briandmyers  ·  4337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do physicists believe in God?

Prayer is (seems to me) for the one praying, not for the deity. I don't know why more Christians don't see this.

If you pray for God to do something he wasn't going to do, surely that's futile. If you pray for God to do something he was already going to do, surely that's useless.

Therefore, if prayer is useful at all, then it is useful for the pray-er, not the pray-ee.