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...Protestant. No longer. He had joined the militantly antiwhite Negro sect. "My religion is Islam," he said, "and I am proud of it. Followers of Allah are the sweetest people in the world. They do not carry knives or weapons. Their women wear dresses that touch the ground. We pray five times a day. God is with...
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...simpler ages of faith, men found it as natural and normal to pray as to till a field or yoke a brace of oxen. But prayer, like good conversation, seems to be one of the lost arts of the 20th century. After mumbling through the Lord's Prayer, modern man wonders what to do next: Ask God for a raise, or thank him for a happy vacation? What kind of words should...
...petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others, or not even intrinsically possible." Yet God's silence does not necessarily contradict Jesus' injunction: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11: 24). For, the author maintains, "such promises about prayer with faith refer to a degree or kind of faith which most believers never experience...