Prayer works? Prayer never works.

You believe God answers your prayers, he’s active in our world and he’s all powerful, all loving and all just. Five (5) million children die of starvation each year. If your God ignores five (5) million children each year, God certainly does not take notice of your sex life. Or gay marriage.

For the record. No prayers are ever answered. God is imaginary. Any prayers that you think are answered is a coincidence.

Am I telling you what to think? No I'm asking you to use your brain. Does the church tell you what to think? Yes, they tell you that prayer works. It's a lie.

The church will never put prayer into perspective as I have below:

• If God answers your prayers, why won't God heal amputees?
• Someone's cancer going into remission is no miracle but when cancer suddenly disappears from the face of the earth overnight without the aid from medical science: Miracle.
• Food getting through to a hungry village: Human perseverance. Starvation vanishing from earth without a reason overnight: Miracle.
• A child is born: Science. The spontaneous end of birth defects: Miracle.

Who do you know and why should I believe you?

If I said I knew all my neighbors on my block, you'd probably believe me. If I said I knew everyone in the town where I live, you'd need more information. Is it a small town or not? If the town had hundreds of thousands of people, you certainly would have doubts about my statement.

If I said I knew everyone in the state of California, you'd immediately say I was crazy. If I said I knew everyone in the world, you know I was crazy. You certainly would not take me seriously.

If I said I knew all the heads of state of all the countries of the world, you think I was probably crazy as well. Even though this is actually possible.

Now if I change the  word "people" to "god", a thunder and lighting GOD, there are many people who would now believe me that I know a "god". There would also be many people who would think I was crazy.

Do you see the problem with people claiming they know a, thunder and lighting, celestial god?

Therefore, when someone tells me they know a god, you can be reassured, I do think they are crazy. This is why we have terms like wishful thinking and self-delusion. And this is why people of reason and rationality simply do not have respect for people living in the Scientific Age who believe in invisible friends.

Certainty is a losing argument.

Science says, if we don't know, let's find out. If we can't figure it out, we are okay with that. Religion says, we know. Religions claim to know what science does not know. Does anyone see the problem with the type of thinking the religious casually accept? Certainty is always a losing argument.

The fundamental problem with religion is that it is built on lies.

"The fundamental problem with religion is that it is built, to a remarkable degree, upon lies.  I refer not merely to twenty-megaton displays of hypocrisy, as when Evangelical preachers get caught with male prostitutes or methamphetamine (or both). Rather, I refer to the daily and ubiquitous failure of most religious people to admit that the basic claims of the their faith are profoundly suspect.

Mommy claims to know that Granny went straight to heaven after she died. But Mommy doesn’t actually know this. The truth is that Mommy is lying—either to herself or to her children—and most of us have agreed to view this behavior as perfectly normal. Rather than teach our children to grieve, and to be happy despite the reality of death, we nourish their powers of self-deception."

Quote by Sam Harris from his new article titled, "Letter to a Christian Nation: AFTERWORD".