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The point of prayer is to create a common ritual to help people to identify with their religion. Sure, people pray in hopes of somehow altering reality, but the closest this gets to it is to focus one's attention on what is desired. This can have the appearance of prayers answered, though. Walk around for a week visualizing a quarter and see how many quarters you pick up. Seems like magic, but it's really just focussing the attention, which can be even more effectively done by praying to onesself, the only god that matters.
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Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns.
Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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