Posted by Riccardo (195.103.80.225) on December 06, 1999 at 02:18:23:
I have read the last posts, and i want to add my opinion on this:
I am Christian, in the sense i believe in God, but I could be Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist and many others in the same sense.
My personal opinion is that the prayers DO function in the same way of we pronounce the mantras, and the usual phrases of self-hypnotism. This means that they function!
But.... if God has given us this CH (and His meanings, i agree, may be surely right and hidden), why the H...eaven He have to help us later when we pray Him ?
It's a nonsense if we believe that God IS LOVE, it's a nonsense if we believe in the Jewish God, that's a "hard and jealous" God.
On the other hand i envy and appreciate persons as Susan, Bernadette and many other for their faith (that's anyway a good thing) I DO NOT want that the religion (all the religions!) has to be kicked out from this board. But let's have all of us a little of equity: don't spit on religious posts, and let the other to disagree with prayers, but let's keep in mind only one thing; "WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CLUSTERS" and every thing that help us have to be shared!
Ciao and pain free days