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Hey, Just wanted you to know that I am praying for you :) I respect that you have passion, not just mere indifference.
Why would you pray for me? What would that accomplish? If god is all knowing and all powerful what difference would your praying make? Think of all the thousands of starving children in africa, think of their parents - chances are they are praying, begging god right now for their 3-year-old to not die from starvation. And their prayers won't be answered. Even if there was a god, do you really think he would change his perfect "divine plan" for anyone?
Don't waste your time talking to imaginary friends and actually do something useful.
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters? - Tim Minchin
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.