how many atheists are like me and still pray fairly often, despite not having faith? I recite the Hail Mary to myself frequently, along with vaguely deist praise or supplication messages, intentions for people I know who are struggling, etc.
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I don't intellectually believe that I'm talking to anyone, that there's a Divine for me to worship and petition, but my subconscious firmly believes in prayer and it comes through in the emotional experience. or something?
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it's amazing watching the rider on the elephant try to deny that water exists "well, sure, the elephant keeps going over there and making slurping noises, but..."
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the problem is that I can come up with a variety of plausible just-so stories and nothing in me says "yes! it's that one!"
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I'm puzzled, though. another angle is: why am I so attached to atheism? why am I afraid to experiment with letting it go? I guess I'm not sure to what degree I can even experiment. I guess I could treat it as not salient?
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how do you find faith when you want to have faith, when faith seems a lot better than what you're doing, but you just *don't believe*? do I have to believe? it usually sounds like that's a required element
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