Contemplative Fieldnotes - Prayer:https://listed.to/@misen/11013/contemplative-fieldnotes-prayer …
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I'm an atheist. Prayer *is* causal. It operates at a level *prior* to thought, even prior to intention in the realm of wishes. If you wish people well and that they be happy, it's like a parsimonious way of giving, it gives rise to intentions and thoughts that bring about ...
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Behaviors of caring for others. This occurs prior to context. Prayer is causal. Even though there is no God, it's useful to pray to God.
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I don't like God, he has an overinflated sense of importance (few thousand years of veneration will do that to a deity). I usually only say God when I'm joking about some vague sense of sacrality. It's a matter of taste more than anything I guess.
I like what you said though 
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