2007-11-27 16:20:53 · 19 answers · asked by Ace of Spades 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ya athiest dog, you love being on the ground.
2007-11-27 16:31:26 · update #1
The real question is who do you plan on praying to since you think that God does not exist? A friggin monkey? You may have evolved from an ape, but I sure as hell didn't.
2007-11-27 16:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
An atheist will not ask for prayer expecting divine involvement, though he may ask based on a hope that your goodwill may in some obscure way aid him (kind of like wishing him luck and meaning it). I as an agnostic have asked for prayer when desperation had me considering all possibilities and because I can't pray myself. I also do not believe in "foxhole conversions". If god is there, he is there in good times as well as bad. Our need does not create god, that would be only a desperate delusion born of our own panic.
I do suppose he could suffer the counterpart of a crisis of faith (like the kind a priest might encounter in the wake of a traumatic experience).
2007-11-28 00:42:25 · answer #2 · answered by singthunder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a person is an atheist, it would not be "logical' as they say, to pray to an imaginary being, would it. So if they ask for prayer, then they would have to believe that some one would be there to here it. So from a logical stand point, they would not be an atheist.
2007-11-28 00:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by jenx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
prayer to an atheist is the same thing it is to a believer, an internal dialogue. I believed for a long time in the image that the catholic church gave me of "god", as a loving, forgiving, provider, and that if I spoke to him, he'd be more inclined to give me what I wanted.
In the end, those nights that I was trying to speak to God, I was only speaking to myself. You can imagine speaking to anyone you like, and it helps you to think things. Kind of the socratic method. Asking questions, and then answering them.
Does it make you less of an atheist? Only if you tell your atheist friends. otherwise it makes you an agnostic, and you will have a whole new group of friends to talk to.
2007-11-28 00:29:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sure it does.
does prayer make christians look like a failure when atheists get the same treatment sometimes better in life; even though atheists don't have to ask the air for help? Why does god allow atheists to have good health and great wealth?
2007-11-28 06:14:41 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Mastershake 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know a lot of atheists, and not a single one of them has ever asked me to pray for them. If they did, then yes, I might have reason to quietly question their atheism. To ask for prayer implies that the asker feels that it could possibly work.
2007-11-28 00:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by solarius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would I ask for prayer? Your Atheist might be an Agnostic.
2007-11-28 00:26:48 · answer #7 · answered by sabina-2004@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If an atheist asks for prayer they are not an atheist.
2007-11-28 00:23:34 · answer #8 · answered by Bible warrior 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No it only makes them stupid. A person can ask for prayer and not believe in God. That is what an atheist is. A person who don't believe in God nothing more.
2007-11-28 00:25:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wouldn't that be like a grown man asking for a present from a Santa Claus he no longer believes in?
2007-11-28 00:23:58 · answer #10 · answered by Ryan H 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋