Atheists who believe in the power of prayer.. reminds me of my apartment mate in graduate school who kept saying his namaz years after he no longer believed in God or religion--he thought it was habit but perhaps prayer is intrinsically soothing for humans. "[Sigfried Gold] is passionate about philosophy and long ago decided that there was no stuff in the universe that was not physical — no supernatural, no divine. But he also smoked too much, and more than anything else he ate too much. He was worried that his weight — a good 100 pounds of excess fat — would kill him. So he joined a 12-step program to control his food addiction. One of the steps is to turn your problem over to a higher power. So Mr. Gold created a god he doesn’t believe exists.."
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:30:21 +0000
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