So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there’s a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules sounds stupid, so at least most religions must be fake.

  • @frog_brawler
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    14 months ago

    Can an atheist pray to god to ask for the enlightenment of his/her/its believers?

          • @frog_brawler
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            34 months ago

            So god never answers the prayers of atheists… sounds pointless.

            Predestination - sounds like you’re talking about god’s plan… why pray then? If it’s already in a plan, it’ll happen. If it’s not in the plan, it won’t.

            If god doesn’t allow his children to slip away, how do you explain the actual verifiable existence of atheists and people that formerly had religion?

              • @frog_brawler
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                44 months ago

                Why would you worship a God that casts aside so many people and condemns them to hell? Sounds more like a Devil.

              • Saik0
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                14 months ago

                Well of course God won’t answer a prayer that would negatively affect one of his true followers.

                No true Scotsman fallacy. Any time anyone can show someone praying for a negative thing against a follower you’ll simply say that they weren’t a “true follower”.

              • @[email protected]
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                Well of course God won’t answer a prayer that would negatively affect one of his true followers.

                …I’m not God, so I have made peace with the fact I will never understand that.

                Could you share what makes you so confident in the first quote, despite what you say in the second quote? How can you know God would not or has not answered any prayers that negatively affected a true follower, and how can one define whether God has negatively affected a true follower when one cannot intimately know God’s true intentions?

    • Mr Fish
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      -14 months ago

      Well you can, but that doesn’t mean God will do it. You’re asking a father, who loves his children, to remove their choice in the matter and force them away, despite him knowing it’s better for them to stay.

      • @frog_brawler
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        34 months ago

        If God never answers the prayers of non-followers; he’s really not convincing anyone new that he exists.

        • Mr Fish
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          14 months ago

          When did I say that? I just said that specific prayer will never be answered

          • @frog_brawler
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            14 months ago

            Maybe it would; I don’t think you get to decide.