There's a reason why priests are called Father, they want to keep you in line like a little kid.

It was sarcasm.....

@AnneWimsey was it?

The word I was looking for was Anti-Religious.

@SnowyOwl I fucking hate all religions, and I hate even more using labels.

@Mofo1953 I don't want to give up so much energy as to actually hate religions but I don't see any benefit to having them around anymore, if there was ever a justification.

@SnowyOwl let's see...Catholics have enriched themselves with trillions in assets, participated in the crusades, the inquisition, supported Hitler because he killed millions of Jews, they killed Jesus didn't you know? Then they operated the rat lines to get these Nazi war criminals to south America, they currently have an epidemic of pedophiles among their priests to which they turn a blind eye, Muslims and Islam are equally retrograde and fanatics who kill and bomb and maim just because you disagree with their barbaric religion, Jews killing Palestine children and bombing the shit out of them, Hindus killing Muslims, Buddhists in China killing Uyghurs, protestants of all denominations were not very nice to the natives and stole their land, all religions are despicable and should be erased from the face of the earth, no middle ground here or Mr nice guy, fuck all of them, I hate them!

@Mofo1953 Kill them all, god will recognize his own?

@SnowyOwl Not funny, sarcasm doesn't suit you.

@Mofo1953 I was paraphrasing the Xstian holy man at the Massacre of Beziers, "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius – Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His"

@SnowyOwl yep, a very popular and well known quote that is in everybody's top of mind, how can one not be aware of that extremely well known massacre, here's another very popular quote that everybody knows..."non tua culpa est, ambitiosa tentare asinus" or it's not your fault to try to be a pretentious jackass!

@Mofo1953 I only took Latin 101 for the science terminology but I get the sense that you may be a bit worked up. Maybe you're just hangry, have you had a Snickers Bar?

@SnowyOwl I don't eat crap, but you can continue putting shit like that into your pretentious ass.

@Mofo1953 It's an exit, not an entrance.

@SnowyOwl you mean your pretentious sphincter, now who's the linguistic moron?

@Mofo1953 I'll leave you to your anal fixation and shitty attitude. BYE!

@SnowyOwl Good to know you accept that you're a pretentious jackass.

But with greater intensity and less realistic uncertainty that the wish will ever come to be.

That is a mistaken definition and lumps all prayers in with supplicatory prayers. A prayer is a conversation, not necessarily asking for something.

@racocn8 My ex was a Catholic school principal and a couple of the priests from the attached church were regular dinner guests. My views were known to then and often led to enjoyable conversation on a number of subjects. I remember a couple of them saying that praying was a conversation with god (their term) and that it should take a form you were comfortable with, be it in a church, sitting on a sofa, out walking or whatever. The subject of the conversation need not be confined to deliverables.