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5. If you want a serious answer here is a link

Mon Aug 23, 2021, 02:19 PM

Aug 2021

To Chapter 19 of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/WJAMES/ch19.html

It's pretty long and not easy going though. The topic of prayer begins at paragraph ten.

Here is an article specifically on petitionary prayers:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/petitionary-prayer/

Most likely we pray for the effect it has on ourselves.

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