On 1/17/2011 10:50 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:09:53 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:07:50 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>>>
>>>>   It means, "We would like to encourage you to do
>>>> something specifically religious, not not just religious, but specific
>>>> to a specific 'set' of religions, since some don't."
>>>
>>> No, really, it doesn't.  At least not to me.
>>
>> Do all religions have such thing as "prayer"?
>
> I couldn't possibly speak to all religions.  Some involve meditation,
> which would be very roughly analogous.
>
> Jim
The effects are certainly analogous, based on study of the effects. A 
fact that is quite funny since you don't have to "meditate" *at* anyone 
specific to get the result, or about anything specific, etc., so anyone 
can do it, where prayer is supposedly "specific" to the deity(ies) in 
questions.

That said, no, not all religions use either. Though, the only obvious 
one I can think of would be Scientology. In principle, performance of a 
ritual, whether it involves something like prayer or not, would qualify 
as religious, if directed at connecting to/effecting supernatural 
forces. Prayer is simply the most common one for the two "recognized" 
religions when ever this stuff comes up (i.e. Christians and Jews), may 
be allowed for something like Muslims, if they bother to include them, 
and isn't, technically, part of the third one they tend to mention, to 
be "inclusive" - Buddhism. However, this is likely because 90% of the 
people talking about religions in this context, don't know a bloody damn 
thing about the religion, other than its been used as a "safe" one to 
pick when talking about their "inclusiveness" for so long that its 
almost Pavlovian to include it.

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