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Joe.Bloggs

9 June 2008 - 6:30am

Who said I haven't worshipped? I was raised in a mix of Anglican, Agnostic and Catholic beliefs, which finished up with attending a Catholic College (Marist Brothers in fact) for my senior levels. If anyone knows about Archaic rituals, it's the Roman Catholics. From my experience there I found that the rituals involved with prayer are pointless, and that prayer itself is only there to give people hope in times of despair. The teachings of the bible - ten commandments, etc - are good, instilling virtues we can all use, but then the bible is open to interpretation and can be used for evil (as we have seen with certain countries which continue with state religion).

What happens after death is the least of my worries: I'll be dead! What happens before I die is what's important.

So what you've said in your 3rd paragraph is that prayer is a completely selfish thing, as you're only doing it to benefit yourself once you've died, and that you're not doing it for your god at all. I find that funny (strange funny, not ha-ha).

Again, worship, headscarves and BREAD (what you eat, not what grows on your face - as in 'eat this bread, it is my body' in christianity) are archaic and selfish as they are only done to benefit whoever does it, not the god they do it for. Does that make sense?

What's going to help someone more: Praying for them, or actually going there and helping them yourself? We all know that the Palestinian issue is a sore point for you, but what would you do for them: Pray for them, or go there and help them in person? Which do you think would be of more benefit to those people?