Stop Praying, for God's sake!

In this short article, I'd like to bash a little on prayer.

My thesis statement: "Stop fucking praying, it doesn't do shit". You can pray to anything, Allah, God, Whatever, and it will not affect the outcome of anything in any way. Once you make a prayer, nothing special happens, events don't magically change, they go how they were already going.

Me and my sister were being bored at home one day. My father sometimes works at home, which usually ends up sucking the fun out of the day for us. So I offered to pray to my sister's parakeet, Timothy, to ask him to make my dad leave for work. She agreed. I did a quick short prayer, threatening that if the prayer wasn't fulfilled we would starve him. Approximately ten minutes later, my dad was walking out the door saying goodbye to my mother, leaving for work. So...can I say Timothy is God? Considering he looks pretty fat and looks like he's going to die pretty soon, I'd take a safe bet on 'no'. There was an equal chance my dad wouldn't leave...MY PRAYER DIDN'T DO SHIT.

"Stanislav, young man, God has answered many of my prayers". He has, has He? How do you explain the one's not answered? And as my Christian dad would surely reply, "It's God's Will". You can pray to anything you want and your chances of not getting what you want remain the same. And to the reply of everything happens as God wants it to, I always ask, "then why in the world do you pray ANYWAYS?!?". Even if you believe prayers go up to God, it still doesn't change the fact that nothing will go against God's plans. Either way, you're screwed.

Oh and by the way, study has shown that, as unbelievable as it sounds, praying does not help the sick. Was quite surprising!

Don't bother praying, it has let me down, millions of other people down, and it will let you down!