Out of Ur: You Are What You Pray

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.
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 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.)

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