Did you know that those priests that are molesting children, are not Christians?? They are bound by religious law.
As much as molestation is a disgusting and punishable act, God forgives, when the guilty come to him and sincerely repent of their sin.

Christians are to pray to God, that is what is meant when people say get on your knees. It is an act of submission and dedication to God. It is the way we Christians' communicate with our Heavenly Father. The Bible tells/suggests that it is a good thing to pray to God, it is how you build your relationship with God.

And I hope you are thoroughly happy, whether being on your knees praying all day or whatever it takes, just so you are happy. I personally don't need that, and am happy, comfortable and confident in myself and beliefs.
The point I want you to understand is that while I defend the right of christians to their own beliefs, Us free thinkers do not like the movement to turn America into a non-free agency country having reliegon forced down our throats. Isn't this your complaint about Iraq and other countries that have a reliegous leaders. Why do you "supposidly" fight for the rights for Iraqi's to have freedom, then try to take away mine? Stofurz calls my good christian friends "rugs" because they are nice people who lead by example and not hatred.
I live in a state that is run by reliegous zealots. We are the worse run state in the country. Sex crimes per capita are the highest, taxes are the highest, spending per student is the lowest and dishonesty and lying are similiar to George's lies. Sometimes when interviewed, they have the nerve to quote the bible to justify their hatred policys.
Please also consider that there are many different reliegons and if the government picks one to favor, then we will have civil wars in this country because one reliegon will think they are superior to the other and makes laws that discrimanate against another reliegon. Practically every war is because of reliegon, so while you are praying, don't you think you ought to ask for christians to quit their hatred?

Mar 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, even the elect.

My early years were raised as a christian reliegon (which one is not important, but Christians claim my reliegon was not christian, while my reliegon said they were. Non issue for me, that's for you guys to argue)
I spent my reliegous years judging people, putting faith in god while not using common sense. I would trust someone because they were reliegous only to be screwed over. I had a dad that was a great reliegous man, and I nievely thought that it was because he was reliegous. It turned out he was just a good person. I later learned that I was missing out not knowing and judging a lot of good people. I listened to their side of the story, found them to be good people and understood where they were coming from.
The bible never made sense to me, if you look at it with an open mind, it's a bizarre document. For years I could not figure it out and thought it was just not meant for me to understand. My theory was that people on drugs had to have written it. Then a friend listened to me and pointed me towards a book called "the bloodline of the holy Grail" This is what I call my "light" It brings into consideration the dead sea scrolls. Finally, somthing that makes sense to me. The bible was written in code because of all the wars of the time. The dead sea scrolls are basically code debugging documents for the bible. Jesus was not someone into witchcraft or magic, but a great caring person. For instance, he never walked on water. Walking on water was code for a boat. Angels are not some hovering wierd images. Angels are a code for messengers. There are many more controversial interpretations from the dead sea scrolls, but reliegons have tried to hide some of them because it makes a lot of reliegons look bad and reliegons have turned into a big profitable business that I will not be a part of. This knowledge has made me a more caring person for all (like Jesus)
I understand that this differs from the standard belief. The important thing is that you are happy with your belief, and that I am happy with mine and if one of us is not happy, then we need to look at the other's beliefs and see if that works for us. If at night when you are by yourself, you can truely say you are happy, then continue with your beliefs. If the whole world was happy, then most of these problems would go away.