Something occurred to me randomly long after writing and scheduling a previous post, a kind of extension, but it was too long to add to that post. It had to do with things like prayers which we find ineffective or offensive or both.
The premise is simple: Why is it that people can outgrow a particular view of religion and still find prayers or other practices that seem to reinforce that older view worthwhile and useable? What about the contradiction?
So I thought it, "Let's pick a facetious prayer, completely fabricated, such as: God, I am a worthless piece of excrement. Let your judgment burn me like hot coals."