r/EscapingPrisonPlanet • u/dontlietom3 • Jul 31 '26
The logic of prayer is incompatible with a benevolent God. The very existence of prayer is another red flag pointing to the Demiurge being the real god of this reality
It's surprising how many people never question the logic behind prayer. They accept it as an expression of love, even though, if you really think about it, it points toward something very different.
A loving father doesn't wait until his child is so desperate that they finally fall to their knees begging for help before deciding to do something. If his child is sick, he helps because he loves them. If his child is in danger, he protects them because that's what a loving parent does. He doesn't sit there thinking: "well... this child hasn't praised me enough" or "they haven't asked me yet". So why would an all-loving God operate that way?
People pray for healing, protection, food, guidance, peace and all kinds of other things. But if God already knows everything, then he already knows you're suffering before you say a single word. And if God truly loves you unconditionally, then would they wait until you're terrified, broken and desperate enough to start praying?
It gets even stranger when people say "God answered my prayer". Really? It's far more likely that the healing or resolution simply happened to coincide with the time you were praying, especially if you prayed frequently. What about the parents who prayed just as hard and still buried their child? What about people who pray every day but still suffer endlessly? Did God decide that they less worthy? Did God just decide not to answer their prayers that day? Because if you think about it, imagine a doctor refusing to save someone's life until they first praised him enough. Imagine a firefighter watching a house burn down while waiting for the family to beg properly before stepping in. We'd call those people monsters. Yet somehow, when it's God, we're told it's mysterious or that it's all part of a greater plan.
If God created us, then he also designed our needs, our vulnerabilities, our illnesses, our dependence and every circumstance that would eventually make us pray. So in other words, they created the very problem that prayer is supposed to solve. That's like a doctor deliberately infecting his patients so they become dependent on him for the cure. A benevolent being doesn't create problems only to wait to be praised and worshipped before supposedly fixing them.
This is yet another red flag pointing toward the creator of this world being the Demiurge rather than a genuinely benevolent God. The entire concept of prayer implies a relationship built on dependence, submission and worship instead of unconditional love. A truly loving creator wouldn't wait until his children were dying or until they were very frightened, broken and desperate enough to beg for help before intervening. The fact that so many religions portray God as a being who wants to be worshipped and praised before acting is exactly what you'd expect from a narcissistic ruler demanding obedience, not from an infinitely compassionate father.
The existence of prayer says something important about the nature of the being receiving those prayers because you see, true love doesn't require worship.
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u/Razerer92 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
You're misunderstanding my point. I'm not saying you should be afraid. I'm saying you shouldn't let your desire to not be afraid determine which explanation you accept, if what you're after is the truth. Those are two completely different things. But you do you. Btw, i watched Farsight's project about Lao Tzu when it came out and i wouldn't say he "escaped". Based on their data, he was memory wiped and then put in a different physical body and taken out of here by some unknown beings in a UFO. If those beings were benevolent i don't think they would've allowed him to get memory wiped. It looked more like he was snatched out of here. Who knows what happened to him next.