i don't think it's very likley god exists, but...

i don't think it's very likley god exists, but could you pray for me just in case? if he's real and you say sad anon he will know what you mean because he knows all. if he's real and i pray for myself he'll just get mad at me for lying.

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Sure thing, sad anon.
But, being the products of scholastic-industrial consciousness, many of us are prone to the idea that it is only possible to pray, if at all, in the manner of a kind of flustered Hugh-Grant-soul:
Errrhm, terribly sorry Lord, don’t mean to a bit of a bother, but well erhm you see the thing is that *pushes hair back* I seem to have sinned…
One can be dispelled of this notion with five minutes’ encounter with the Psalms, which contain some of the most petulant, demanding and bitchy cries ever raised to God. Do this, Lord! Do that! Where have you gone, when are you coming back, and who said you could leave? And hey, kick my enemies’ asses while you’re at it.
Even more relevant to your circumstances is Mark 9:24. Offering prayer in a kind of superposition of faith and doubt is not only canonically encouraged, but probably the only way the whole thing can ever get off the ground in the first place.
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