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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is this concept of asking for prayer from others on your behalf and "the power of prayer" that made me lose my faith/belief.  I simply couldn't reconcile the need for prayer with a loving god.
Like if my kid has cancer, is he REALLY more likely to be healed if 100 people on a prayer chain pray for it than if I pray for it?  And why do I even have to pray for it?[/quote]

Praying isn't for God. It's for the person praying.

Maybe if 100 people on a chain pray, one of them will be find the ability  to help somehow.[/quote]

PP here and I kind of get this.  Praying is one way to address that helpless "there must be something I can do!" feeling.  But if we know it isn't actually making a difference in what god does or doesn't do, then we may as well be doing anything else at all, right?  It is like saying that you feel helpless so you go eat a sleeve of cookies....Self-soothing.[/quote]

But maybe it is making a difference medicinally, in suffering, or in some other way. Clearly you don’t believe it can, but people of faith do. [/quote]

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