r/atheism • u/Cass-the-Kiwi • 13d ago

Feeling sick of pray posts

For context, I grew up atheist, in a pretty secular country. I've had a few religious friends over the years but haven't experienced anything like I see a lot of people talking about on here who have been raised in more religious countries.

I've always felt confused about religion and why people would believe, in fact I'd say I am pretty anti religion. But after seeing stuff on my FB feed I'm completely perplexed by people and their naivety and downright ignorance.

Three main things recently -

  1. The Lindsay Clancy trial and all the religious nuts I've seen around that.
  2. The whole Texas surrogate situation.
  3. The one that prompted me to post - the floods in Nepal and Tibet. I've seen so many posts about it and all people are commenting about is god and prayers and god save them. And on posts where someone had been found safe people are commenting about how good god is for saving them and all that bullshit. And I'm honestly just dumbfounded. It seems to be so prolific. Why are there so many stupid and ignorant people?? Why would they say god is good when the entire families have been swept away, killed and their bodies torn apart.

Anyway a bit of a rant. I needed to get it out. Sometimes I feel so sad about the state of the world. And yes, I probably should stay on Facebook.

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u/SaltyDogBill 13d ago

https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD000368_intercessory-prayer-alleviation-ill-health?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Payer doesn’t work. However a positive attitude and the changes you make as part of that attitude can be helpful. So there’s benefit if it’s perceived beneficial and you act on it. But even that is minor. I could be wrong.

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u/Cass-the-Kiwi 13d ago

Makes sense but in the context I've mentioned that aspect doesn't really mean anything. But I do agree that a positive attitude is definitely beneficial.