The danger of ignoring the formative purpose of prayer.
I am a religious person because I pray.
In that sense I have a solidarity with all who pray.
I
have more in common with the Egyptian Muslim who prays five times a day than with the European secularist who never prays.
I have more in common with the Indian Hindu who prays to Brahma than with the American consumerist who prays to nothing at all.
I have more in common with the mystic Rumi than with the Deist Jefferson.
(That the majority of American evangelicals feel more at home with an Enlightenment secularist than with a Muslim mystic shows just how secular we really are.)
I am a Christian because I pray as a Christian. Read more
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