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When I was an aquatics counselorat a Boy Scout camp, we had a saying, "Pray to God, but Row Toward Shore."

Another one I've heard is, "There are no athiests in foxholes."

Or, "As long as there are tests in public school, there will be prayer in public school."

If God exists, God clearly does not act for those who don't act to help themselves or others--except in rare circumstances, which could easily be attributed to random events.

There is something in my life that makes me unwilling to go out and cheat and steal. Or to hurt people or other living things senselessly. While God may not have reached a hand into my life and turned the page, I am a better person for beliving in God.

"Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and give to God what is God's" --Jesus

So, what has a greater rate of success?

Praying to "God"?

or

Pointing wriggling fingers, blinking twice and chanting "Ooh ga boo ga zippidedoo, this is what I want from you"?

They are both equally effective. Go ahead, try it. Which one worked?

By deanrddMarch 28, 2009 - 7:34pm This is as "spiritual" as I get. Go to YouTube, type in "The Point", scroll down to the 'Animated, 1971' and click on. Allow yourself about 90 minutes, as it's delivered in 8 ten minute long parts (Yes, I know that 8 times 10 equal 80, not 90). I was putting on some directional flow arrows on some piping the other day and the song "Me And My Arrow" sprang into my head. A guy asked me about it, and I told him about this cartoon that I saw when I was a kid. I didn't remember the name of it, not much about it really, except the premise. He went on line, and found it on YouTube. The dad's voice is Ringo Starr, the music is Nils Lofgren (I think). It's a great life lesson for inhumane people. Some of our trolls might find it spiritually benificial.

Nothing like good old religion. Magical arm waving. Mystic passes. Angels, demons. Shining Godpower. The occult. Divinity, spiritual "truth", supernatural events. Deep voices from a magical "heaven". Mystic symbols. Spiritual philosophy Books of magical power. Mystic traditions. Crying statues. Gods and Saints appearing on a potatoe chip. Hidden knowledge. "Secrets". Alchemy, extra-sensory perception, astrology, spiritualism and numerology. Special spiritual studies, the Kabbalah . The mystic virgin appearing on a piece of buttered toast. Invocations against "witchcraft". It's so real. So true. Who could doubt? How could you not believe? You must be crazy to not want all this.