Most people now-a-days pray for things like winning the war...
Nowadays? Try "since the invention of religion"...
Using prayer for murder is worse than being athiest.
Holy crap! A fundie with some genuine humanity! Indeed, praying for someone's death when you believe in the power of prayer is morally worse than simply not believing in it. Of course, as an atheist I don't believe has any practical effect anyway (aside from the ones that can be explained by psychology), but the sentiment is nice.
They also pray for selfish thigns like God can you give me more money, sex, and please don't let me get my gf pregnat.
I'd say that there are better ways to get these anyway, such as getting a job/a better job (or the qualification to get one of these), proper hygiene and social graces (or failing that lots of alcohol), and proper sex ed and birth control ^^"
Kids on the other hand pray to the anti-christ (Santa Clause) in hopes that the anti-christ will ful-fill their selfish desires. Making your kids beleive in santa clasue might seem cute and fun but do you have any idea how disrespectful that is to jesus.
Aaaaaand we're back into tinfoil hat territory. And you were doing so well, too...
Celebrating christmas would be like nailing jesus to the cross again year after year.
McCulloch, Mister Spak, and Osiris already covered that one ^^
