The Weak Magic of Praying to God
How prayer is a vestige of incantation
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5 min readJul 7, 2023
As it’s practiced by late-industrial folks in secular societies, prayer is a vestige of something quite preposterous.
To understand the foundations of prayer, and how prayer is a weakened form of something that’s been thoroughly discredited, we need to consider the role of magic in prehistoric societies. For instance,
