How can a God hear your prayer? Do your thoughts get bundled up in a package of information and get sent to a supernatural computer where they are read and stored by God? What kind of database does he use? How complicated are his joins? (database schema joke). If our brain operates by using neurons and sending chemicals and electrical signals, then it is a purely physical mind. There is no other supernatural 'soul' that needs to be inserted in order to understand consciousness, and if you do insert this soul object, ask yourself what a soul is? I have yet to hear a cohesive definition that doesn't use other spurious words that at the end of the day also remain scientifically undefined.

We recently updated our falcons and carrier pigeons to lasers. They take A LOT of energy to transmit all the way to God, but it actually cost more to feed and house the falcons. I think Catholics are trying to find a way using quantum phone lines.

We can even activate certain parts of the brain using electrodes and make the brain think different things, or even make you do morally objectionable things? Does that mean there is a soul? No.

Cool fact, bro.

Keep in mind, none of this is ever explained in biblical terms. Often times, it is explained by telling you to pray more, often making you stop questioning these very difficult questions to answer. How does telling you to pray harder answer any question? Is faith really just gullibility?

Prayer is incredibly useful for discernment. Just the other day I was praying whether or not I should take my sick dog to the vet and I spent so much time in prayer that my dog died. Problem solved, discernment made easier.

Again, as an atheist, I find that biblical sources are hard to reconcile with any sense of scientific inquiry, and thus fail to be true. Perhaps someone who prefers to know things based on faith would disagree, but then again, someone who uses faith might be a conservative Muslim, and how would that explain the truth claims of Orthodox Christianity?

There's actually an atheist conspiracy to discredit the bible, so I'm not surprised that you've only seen Illuminati source that don't line up with the Book. Obviously Muslims are wrong.

Faith really is irrational. Why do you like to have irrational beliefs?

Because rationality scares us.

^In case your sarcasm meter is broken, <\s>