• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I don’t think the evidence is clear that god rejects prayers more for sociopaths than everybody else.
    But yes they are probably rejected equally.

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        16 hours ago

        Yes by rejected equally I mean always rejected, exactly because god doesn’t exist.
        Some claim that the reason we can’t see the effect, is because god doesn’t reveal himself.
        Funny thing is though, that a study on how prayer works for sick people showed they actually got worse!
        So there isn’t even a beneficial psychological effect, it’s actually negative.
        If god was working without revealing himself, there is no reason it should be worse.
        So when people claim there is no evidence against the existence of god I disagree.
        There is no evidence that a god exist, but there is actually evidence against the existence of the Judaic god.
        Also the complete lack of evidence for the existence of a god, is evidence that the existence of a god is highly unlikely.

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          24 minutes ago

          Funny thing is though, that a study on how prayer works for sick people showed they actually got worse!

          Uuh, is it because they refuse other types of treatment? That is a pretty important distinction. I don’t believe for a second that just praying magically makes you more sick.

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        15 hours ago

        I guess that’s what we call atheism.
        But there has been real studies on the efficacy of prayer, and when it turned out to be negative! Such studies suddenly stopped.

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      21 hours ago

      Maybe, but I think sociopaths have a real “ok, well fuck you, too, then. I’ll do/get it myself!” mentality when it comes to God.