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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an atheist and while I understand the frustration with this phrase I do think its different when it is intimate.

I had a very hard time getting pregnant at first, it took almost a year and a half. And when I had my first baby she was in the NICU for two weeks for complications. I have a friend from Kentucky who told me afterwards that her mom's prayer circle had been praying for me, both to help me get pregnant and for my baby girl's health.

I don't necessarily believe that they had an impact in a material way, but it was a nice warm and full feeling to know that people far away were hoping for and loving us in a way, so they did have an impact in an emotional way. I can't totally knock it. [/quote]

+1
Prayer doesn't make sense to me. Basically it's begging God to pick you. If you pray harder - adoring and begging him the more- he'll pick your prayer to answer over someone else's? 
And does praying for someone else increase their cred in eternal life? How does it all work?

But I'm not going to say all that to a Believer. Prayers directed at/for me I just interpret as a way to say "I care". [/quote]

Earlier posters have pointed out it’s not about “pick me”. It’s about easing the pain or even making death easier, psychilogically and physically.[/quote]

Okay, not the right words. I still don't understand how prayer is the magic that makes it easier. Praying for an easier death is still asking if not begging. Maybe I never will, because to me it's all wishful magical thinking. 
Again, I appreciate the sentiment behind it, but caring words work psychologically just as well.

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