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Originally Posted by FuriousAvatar
I do not believe in God, so to be simple, no, I do not believe in divine intervention.
However, I think prayer can be a powerful tool for some people to get through difficult times or situations. The basic need to be heard and to believe you are in fact being heard can lend more strength than the belief that someone or something out there can and will help you and change things for the better.
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This is my position as well, for the most part. If not for prayer and being part of a faith community throughout my teenager years (when my parents were splitting up), I am fairly sure that I would have gotten myself into some self-destructive behavior and ended up screwing myself over pretty badly. Prayer and the church got me through that time--it was my life raft, and I believed in it all to the core.
These days, I wish I could pray and believe in it--but there's nothing left there, except the psychological knowledge of how it might help relieve my mind of some pressure. Without faith, there isn't a whole lot of use left for prayer.