Eric E. Sabelman's Blog – 6th mo. 2011 Archive (1)

Thoughts on Prayer

Rich Morgan asks (on Quaker-L, an ancient ancestor of the blog) "Who or what to Quakers pray to-God, Jesus, the light . .. Who would a secular humanist pray to?"



Although almost all dictionary definitions of "pray" assume it is a transitive verb, with God (or something) being prayed to, it does not have to be so. One of the definitions is "to offer (as a prayer)," which in part describes my… Continue

Added by Eric E. Sabelman on 6th mo. 29, 2011 at 11:33pm — No Comments

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