Why Praying Annoys Me

Reason #1. People feel like they don't have to actually do anything if they ask their imaginary friend to do it. Very dismissive.

Reason #2. People take credit for others' hard work and don't acknowledge that luck is a thing.

Reason #3. It's so self serving. People just want to feel like they are doing good without actually doing anything. They aggressively pray even for people they know don't like or want that. They pray for things others don't want. I was watching a video about disabled couples and many of them had horrific stories about people telling them they'd be prettier in the afterlife and shit like that.

So crazy people.
Pray for yourselves and leave the rest of us out of it.

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BlueSkyKing · M

Prayer
A recited incantation designed to force or cajole a deity or deities into changing the normal, existing, or probable course of events in the universe, obtain an advantage, or avoid a divine penalty. Also an expression of gratitude or adulation, or an affirmation of continual fear, made to a deity.

A prayer is often accompanied by a promise or a sacrifice (the firstborn, money, giving up a favorite vice, not lying, a select bit of food the priests can eat) to seal or satisfy the agreement. A spell.

Aliveshock

@BlueSkyKing incantation or spell is witchcraft. You skipped Sunday School.
The only sacrifice normally needed is that of Praise.

BlueSkyKing · M

@Aliveshock How would you define what prayer is?

Aliveshock

@BlueSkyKing
Talking/sharing with God.
The difficult part for a person lacking Faith to understand is that God gives the believer in Jesus, a Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:25-27

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.