[Atheists] When was the last time you 'prayed' as an atheist?

Panrich

I have started praying to Joe Pesci having taken advice on the matter.

toiletduck

Never. It's doesn't even come into my mind as a 'hail Mary' option ( :pac: ) in the worst of times.

Cú Giobach

Pray to what?????
If you say a quick prayer "just in case" then you're not really an a-theist are you (I think).

vampire of kilmainham

gbee wrote: »

Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights, just before I tick the Quick Pic on the Lotto.

To be perfectly honest, as a boy praying to Mary or St. Anthony, I did get more of a response ... I did get to see most of my favourite films in the cinema ~ remember no TV way back when I was a boy.

As a confirmed atheist, praying to the God of nothing for the lotto numbers, well I guess he has really answered me after all, I never win anything.

I'm talking myself out of a Lotto win here, somehow!?

Allways look on the bright side of life:D:D:D

sensibleken

Panrich wrote: »

I have started praying to Joe Pesci having taken advice on the matter.

your god rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4et8Dt6rco

userod

Panrich wrote: »

I have started praying to Joe Pesci having taken advice on the matter.

You'd want to be pretty brave to disobey Carlin though wouldn't you.

I still find myself saying things like "Please god" or "with the help of god". For me, if I were to stop and think about it, both translate as "hopefully". Which I know makes no difference to my chances, but I think 'hope' is hardwired into our brains, and maybe that's a good thing. I don't hope there is a god, I know there isn't. I do hope each time I have a little gamble though, and that adds a little fun! If I only considered the mathematical aspect of gambling then I'd never play, and it'd be no fun. In one sense it's irrational, in another it isn't.

eblistic

userod wrote: »

I still find myself saying things like "Please god" or "with the help of god"...

What about when someone sneezes?

userod

eblistic wrote: »

What about when someone sneezes?

Bless You! I know ... an abbreviation of "God bless you"

Scars of a religious upbringing, that, to be perfectly honest, I wouldn't mind keeping.

prinz

Gambler wrote: »

I've said to myself "Please let this happen" but I've never thought of it as asking "The universe"\"god" to let it happen..

But who are you pleading to?

sensibleken

prinz wrote: »

But who are you pleading to?

if i do it its no-one corporeal. just an imagined parent figure i appeal to in a moment of vunerability. what i believe a lot of the concept of god is

mehfesto

All I do each night is pray





Hoping that I'll be a part of you again someday
All I do each night is think of all the times
I close the door to keep my love within

bnt

r3nu4l wrote: »

You didn't fully read the OP before you dived in to answer did you? I hate when people do that because that's when they go off on tangents like the one you just did...

Well, that was my second reply on this thread - almost an addendum to my first reply (pg 1), which dealt with the OP's question more directly. I'm guessing you haven't read the whole thread. I hate when people do that because that's when they go off on tangents like the one you just did...

Ickle Magoo

bnt wrote: »

Well, that was my second reply on this thread - almost an addendum to my first reply (pg 1), which dealt with the OP's question more directly. I'm guessing you haven't read the whole thread. I hate when people do that because that's when they go off on tangents like the one you just did...

He is the OP - that's how closely you read the thread.

MrSir

Sometimes I would say something like 'Please God' for whatever reason but I feel like I have to always add '......whom I don't believe in by the way'

Banbh

A relative who was terminally ill asked me to pray for him, probably testing my lack of belief. I told him I would and that no doubt when I got on the blower the angels would be running around wetting themselves. It gave him and his family a good laugh, and maybe some comfort.
So I said something along the lines of 'if there is any force that controls things and can pick up on human aspirations, can you help this guy?'
I feel I did the right thing and it was no skin off my atheist nose.
Needless to say it didn't alter the inevitable conclusion.

Shenshen

I do get these "Oh, please, don't let me be late for the bus again" moments, but they tend to be directed towards the univers in general, I find.