Do non religious people pray to god when things are going bad or a disaster is looming?

[Diceroller]

Do you know anyone that has done this? Have you? Did it help?

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I don't......not sure about anyone else.

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Disaster has never "loomed" for me.

[beso]

It has been said that there are no atheists on the battlefield.

The only thing religion ever gives is hope and I am sure anything can look better than hopelessness to a man ordered to run toward a machine gun.

[pa___ul3]

it would maybe come down to "there's no harm in asking" I suppose, although I am yet to hear about the man, about to be run over, praying to god, only for a giant hand to come from the sky and pick him up and put him on the pavement!

[cupid04]

My dearly departed father-in-law [God bless his soul] told me of many accounts
during the second world war where the so-called atheists called to God in times of
great distress. They also called out to their mother. God is within us whether you
choose to believe him or not.

[beso]

I have been in a situation on a bicycle where something took control of the handlebars as I was about to ride across an intersection against the traffic lights just before they changed.

I drove parallel to a car that had pushed the "orange" envelope.

Still I don't see a God our Creator. More like a God, our Creation.

[flobadob]

I'd say a lot do, yes.

[RATTER15]

I am an Atheist, I have been in a few desperate situations and I just hoped that things would turn out OK, but never would I turn to some ridiculous notion that an imaginary, invisible man in the sky, with an appalling track record would do anything at all.

I have also made it very clear that if ever I am in situation where I may die or desperately ill I will not want any representative of any religious organisation anywhere near me!! That is one thing that would ensure my passing would be a miserable affair, having vicar spouting off a load hogwash!!

Yes I can imagine when people are facing death that some would pray to God, we can all grasp at straws when faced with desperation.

Some times we cannot see logic.

[beso]

C'mon ratter. He will do anything for a complete sycophant.

On second thoughts, no it is not worth sacrificing one's dignity.

[Euphemia]

no

[Old_Geezer]

Some may, some may not. Individual decision.
No, no large hands plucking folk away, but who is to say when a disaster has been averted, what the cause was? I think whether a diety exists and is more inclined to help on request, is another of those personal opinion things that doesn't gain a lot from discussion.

[craft1948]

My father (an atheist) suddenly found God when he thought he was dying. Funnily enough, after he'd recovered, he didn't put it down to God and reverted to being a heathen.

[China Doll]

I tend to just try to think positively or sulk/get upset. I don't put bad things down as happening because of a God so wouldn't turn to a God for a positive solution. Obviously I can't speak for all atheiests.

[funnygirl]

It is more like a blasphemy for me!!

[mike11111]

I agree with OG. As I have said elsewhere, every single post in this category, stripped of its varied phraseology, boils down to one of two things: There is/isn't a God. Until I read a single post in which someone says that the discussion here has led to him being changed from an atheist to a believer or vice versa, I will continue to regard it as a waste of time and pixels, as it is nothing more than an opportunity for people to reiterate their entrenched views.

[Gromit]

I don't. I usually talk to my dog.

Maybe I'm deity dyslexic?

[Old_Geezer]

No, just barking.

[ll_billym]

I am an atheist however I am in awe of the 'power' of the universe and the processes that we barely understand that created our planet and every living thing. There is a higher power in the universe, it is the 'why' and 'how' of it all but that power has no intelligence, or even a beard. Praying is just about the most useless thing that anybody can do to resolve a situation.

[chakka35]

mike11111, why would you expect a conversion either way?

Atheists are rational people, no more to be persuaded by stories of ancient gods than they are by stories of unicorns and fortune-tellers.

Religionists are not rational and are therefore immune to fact, evidence, argument, logic and commonsense.

I suppose there are some rational people who hope that the occasional religionist, one day, will start using the intellect that evolution has given him or her. Hope springs eternal.