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Does the World need prayers??

As a remarkable gift of the human civilization, we have religions. But these divisions have nothing to do with whether god exists or why we need to pray……
 Today when I stand up to Atheists, lets ponder upon why does the world as we know believe in prayers.
Whether you pray or not is a multiplied probability of the three 
1. Gods existence, him listening to you
 2. The effort it would take you to pray
 3. What you risk to lose!!!!
I will now build up examples to show to you how the interplay of these probabilities shape our prayers. To start the belief in God. That in fact forms the very basis of prayers, but even those who do not believe in God will also have to admit that there are some happenings which our physics simply can’t decode (as in 2018).
So we are left with two methods to approach this, we assume God exists and continue to do so…… till we are able to decode all of the universe design and unveil the future OR at least know there is no design at all. The and seemingly more accepted way is to accept God exists till your worthy counterparts are done with the above mentioned tedious job. As you guessed it that what most of the world does right now…
Now the other two determiners are more intricately related, the efforts and the risk of the result. If your risk is seemingly very high, you would pray. Think of your dear one in danger…. Or when you are done with all efforts and you know that now it’s all on luck.
Here I would say prayers help us to buy some patience within which luck goes on its course to determine the results, and the biased world gives all credits to prayers.

Apart from that sometimes the efforts it requires to pray decides whether you pray or not…
 if it two lines of hymns, anybody would do that even just as an insurance. As the efforts become more and more demanding, people tend to rationally evaluate the risk to effort ratio. But here the social bias plays a very important role in announcing true winners of the tug-of-war.
many people around the world have a daily prayer, which is more of a thanks giving call to elements of mother nature. Another hope building exercise by humans who have learnt from evolution what havoc nature can wreck!!

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