The Power of Prayer

A very religious man lived right next door to an atheist. While the religious one prayed day in, day out, and was constantly on his knees in communion with his Lord, the atheist never even looked twice at a church.

The atheist's life was good, he had a well-paying job and a beautiful wife, and his children were healthy and good-natured, whereas the pious man's job was strenuous and his wages were low, his wife was getting fatter every day and his kids wouldn't give him the time of the day.

So one day, deep in prayer, the religious man raised his eyes towards heaven and asked, "Oh God, I honor you every day, I ask your advice for every problem and confess to you my every sin. Yet my neighbor, who doesn't even believe in you and certainly never prays, seems blessed with every happiness, while I go poor and suffer many an indignity. Why is this?"

And a great voice was heard from above, "Because he doesn't bother me all the time!"

http://www.atheistalliance.org/humor/prayer.html

Very funny.

I don't believe that prayer has any value other then internal, a spiritual "placebo" if you will. It can motivate inner change and it helps tons of people. I respect prayer, and appreciate its effects on some people, but if you believe that someone else heres you besides near-proximity oragnisms, then you're just crazy.

That's not only funny, it could be very true as well.

Hehe that was good.