# a little niggle about praying/worship

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-niggle-about-praying-worship/117767>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 7, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-niggle-about-praying-worship/117767 "2002-07-07T10:31:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-niggle-about-praying-worship/117767/41 "2002-07-13T17:08:22Z")

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Worship/prayer is the act of expressing thanks to God for all that He has done.

Personally, I worship and pray, not because any god orders me to do so, but because I am overjoyed by the richness of my experience, the people I meet, and other such things.

Shoot, who else am I to thank for the beautiful birdsongs I hear on my otherwise dull street?

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-niggle-about-praying-worship/117767/42 "2002-07-13T17:16:21Z")

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How about the birds?

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