re: #933 Daria Emmons

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But the very reason you pray in religion is because you believe God actually interferes in our daily lives and will in some way answer your prayers. Why would God answer prayers? Because, prayer itself is based upon the notion that God cares about humanity enough to answer prayers and even alter the course of history to answer such prayers.

Praying is inherently an act done with the thought in mind that God is an activist and listens to humans. Otherwise, it makes no sense at all why anyone should include, amongst the prayers, specific requests of God… .

Some of us pray simply for strength and wisdom, NOT for God’s intervention to twist events to what we want them to be.