How often do you pray?

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British kids are no more or less crazy than kids in other Western countries. It is very much dependent upon location. Kids are crazier in areas with high unemployment, poor job prospects and poor services - this in turn leads to high crime and drug abuse thus driving such areas even further downhill. Typically they are former industrial areas that have hit hard times since the recession and out sourcing of jobs and manufacturing to China and elsewhere. You have the same problems in America in Detroit for example. The once proud car manufacturing region of the states is now full of crime ridden, drug dependent ghettos and the kids have poor prospects in life.

The beatings are no longer allowed in UK schools and I gather the force feeding of Christianity in a morning assembly has been watered down into some sort of "multi cultural religious understanding" whatever that is. One of my relatives is now a headmaster himself and he and all the other teachers find it to be a waste of time and the students generally non-receptive to it. Don't know if the kids are still forced to pray or not with alternate sanctions against them for non-compliance.

Which god would I pray to for strength? Zeus is good with thunderbolts and Thor's got a mighty hammer, so I imagine both of those are appropriate. Any suggestions as to which of the many mythological gods would be the most suitable to pray to that mankind has invented over the millennia? The Christian and Muslim versions of the mythological Hebrew god are fairly popular in the West at the moment but Krishna is popular in India, maybe Hotei from Japan? Too many gods to choose between. Maybe I could pray to a prophet but which one? Mohamed, Jesus, Moses, Guru Nanak, Joseph Smith, Shree Rajneesh or one of the countless others?

If you say "Oh-God" during an orgasm is that like praying?

I honestly find it kind of fascinating that happens. Even I will say that sometimes.

I can imagine people ages ago doing the same thing with names of other Gods.

I once prayed to Ra for the sun to rise. It seemed to work.

How about not praying to a prophet at all? Sounds good to me.

You can always pray to the toilet when need be anyway.

Reminds me of my student days when one of my very drunk friends was on the big white ceramic telephone to God saying "Oh God!" between each heaving up.

I think we've all prayed at the porcelain altar, from time to time.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Indeed, I would gather that introducing religious education in schools would only turn the students off for good, if we are worried about granting everybody the 'freedom' to choose.

I recall having a similar "multi-cultural" course at school; don't think it received any response but the instructor was also quite a bore.

"Popular" doesn't seem to me to be a good word to describe the status of Christianity in the West, even the Catholic states. I was responding to your statement implying that having some sort of positive course of action in the mind and wanting that endeavour to succeed is almost certainly a more effective way of going about things than leaving intentions as just intentions with prayer as an excuse for the lack of activity.