If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Freethought is respectable. Freethought is crucial. Freethought needs to be publicized.

I have an Easter challenge for Christians. My challenge is simply this: tell me what happened on Easter. I am not asking for proof. My straightforward request is merely that Christians tell me exactly what happened on the day that their most important doctrine was born.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special,above it all.