Religious people say that prayers work, yet when you question them and ask why, like when they prayed for a specific something ("Father, please don't let my father die of cancer"), they say that they're prayers were not answered because it was God's will.
I point out that, if there is a god, and he knew everything in advance, what is the point in begging him to change his mind? The results of prayer are exactly that of random chance.
Look at the story of Jesus Christ, who prayed in the garden that he would be spared, yet this wonderful, forgiving god ignored him. Of course, Jesus Christ, according to the Church, is God (one of The Trinity)...so that makes it even more confusing and illogical.
Jesus Christ, or so we are told, also asked God why he had been forsaken, while he was being crucified. So, God is questioning God...and God couldn't get God to change his mind...but I digress.
The act of praying, although it has a psychological element, makes absolutely no sense. Christians cannot explain it, because it is basically impossible to explain.
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