You don't have to pray. Of course you don't. The same way you don't have to ask for an extra portion of grandma's home made apple pie for dessert.

If we never have a problem with anything how can we learn to stand our ground when it really counts?

Isn't it weird that God wants to spend eternity with all those people that we can't even be bothered to talk with for a couple of minutes?

Does God change when our understanding of him changes? Redefining God by the standards of the time may indeed be a slippery slope!

Yes, there are things that I'm am not going to miss. These ones for starters...

If people can be good by their own power, how comes they can't agree on what is good?