Anyone pray without believing in god?

[Failure21]

So recently I have started to pray every night. I pray to God every night for him to either let my former friends give me a second chance so we can be friends again or for me to finally get the spine to ctb. I'm an agnostic atheist so while I'm open to the idea of a God, I don't really believe that he exists so I'm not really sure why I bother doing it or why I even started. Yet every night I find myself praying desperately to a God that either isn't there or doesn't really give enough of a shit to care.

Anyone else find themselves praying for no reason other than the tiny hope there is a God that actually cares?

 

[unplug]

I suppose I do, but I see it as more of an inner dialogue with myself.

 

[Failure21]

I suppose I do, but I see it as more of an inner dialogue with myself.

I suppose me talking to God is more out of a desperate need to talk to someone that isn't me even if he's imaginary

 

[Hollowman]

I have and it never did any good so I stopped.

 

[Failure21]

I have and it never did any good so I stopped.

What made you completely stop? It's done me no good either but I still do it because for some reason and I don't know why

 

[Hollowman]

What made you completely stop? It's done me no good either but I still do it because for some reason and I don't know why

Because it's pointless to me.

 

[Source Energy]

I pray to Source/ infinite intelligence for outside help to fix my energy and turn around this crashing car that is my life. I don't believe in God deity.

 

[Failure21]

Because it's pointless to me.

What made you realize it was pointless? At some point you still tried

 

[Danyyyyy]

I do the same every night just hoping that maybe some things align either for me or others. Im even gonna start church classes but I dont rlly believe in god and stuf but its also to make my mum happy so im going through it

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've only found myself doing it when I've been REALLY scared. I was raised to say prayers at night. I just kind of stopped at some point. I'm more of the opinion that there isn't a God now to be honest but when I've been frightened- I suppose I've reached out in desperation.

 

[angelysium]

Yes, I hope that he does exist, so that he can end me and this world in a snippet. I used to pray for this as a child, but it was obvious that it wasn't happening, and not for my sake, and my sake alone.

 

[Suspect_Device]

I was going to start my own thread on this but it was already active. I pray to god a lot despite all the evidence that there is either no god, or there exists a god with fucked up motives that are contrary to human happiness. I prayed for god to either help me live or help me die (three weeks?) ago. Since then my life has gotten WAY worse and I am having even worse vision problems, chronic neck pain, and headaches. Thanks god, message received, you motherfucker.

 

[cosmic-joke]

So recently I have started to pray every night. I pray to God every night for him to either let my former friends give me a second chance so we can be friends again or for me to finally get the spine to ctb. I'm an agnostic atheist so while I'm open to the idea of a God, I don't really believe that he exists so I'm not really sure why I bother doing it or why I even started. Yet every night I find myself praying desperately to a God that either isn't there or doesn't really give enough of a shit to care.

Anyone else find themselves praying for no reason other than the tiny hope there is a God that actually cares?

I prayed 10 mins ago, I don't like religion but I'm starting to see the undoubtable signs of something higher up than us, life is so surreal post 2018 I lost everything and everyone I'm homeless and completely alone, part of me is sure I'm dead

 

[gonnaregretthis]

i have a weird relationship with prayer, i feel like i talk to or think about god as a form of communication which might count as a prayer. im an ex- rastafari and ex- christan and at this point in my life i dont believe in One God but like a possibility that there is life in everything and that that is what god is. i think in desperate times i revert to these ideas about Christianity that ive abandoned because there are, in a way, more definable because of the history of the religion and its hold on society.

 

[Meditation guide]

I have prayed, mostly when helpless, scared and in some sort of pain, and I have experienced miracles and help from somewhere, not every time I prayed but a few times, help out of the blue, so there is something or someone helping.

 

[nofunclub]

I've only found myself doing it when I've been REALLY scared. I was raised to say prayers at night. I just kind of stopped at some point. I'm more of the opinion that there isn't a God now to be honest but when I've been frightened- I suppose I've reached out in desperation.

Same here. I was raised Catholic but stopped believing when I was around 11… I think there's something ingrained deep inside me from the years of forced prayer tho lol, such that when I'm truly desperate, I find myself sending out a call for help. Even though I don't truly believe that anyone's listening.