Comments on: France Needs Your Prayers!

By: Pray for France at Adventures of a Young Savage

Pray for France at Adventures of a Young Savage — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:26:28 +0000

[...] A Post on the FriendlyAthiest.com A Reddit page dedicated to the site A Blog post with an accompanying comic A Forum post on Internet Infidels A Blog post promoting the site, in which the writer then receives a lot of flak for posting it A Post on Frogsmoke.com A Post on the Cynical-C A Post on the blog of a couple in Minneapolis I’m curious, so I thought I’d open it up to my readers. What do you the site? [...]

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:14:12 +0000

Hi Mriana,

Thanks for your question. The prayer guide is 40 pages and costs $3.15 to print. With PayPal processing it comes to right around $3.50.

And, prayer is free – no question about it. That’s why we don’t say you can’t pray without the guide. THAT would be a giant scam!

In fact, if thousands of people didn’t ask for the guide year after year, I’m sure Objectif France would have stopped printing it years ago.

By: Mriana

Mriana — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:02:12 +0000

I also see it as a scam too. Why charge $3.50 for a prayer guide? This is laughable. Atheists feeling sorry for a charleton group trying to get money out of people? Legit prayer is free and you don’t need no stinking guide to pray.

MikeC, tell ‘em, please! Before I laugh so hard I fall out of my chair. Come on, guys, this is a scam. I wouldn’t be making so many jokes if I didn’t think it wasn’t.

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:12:10 +0000

I’m flattered that you’re all intrigued by the site. I have modified it to explain exactly where the money is going for both the PDF and the printed version since that’s an extremely valid point.

And, of course, since I’m here I’d welcome any questions about the site. I’ll try to answer to the best of my ability.

And thanks Hermant for your blog. I’m fondly reminded of my three month stint in one of the Atheist chat rooms on AOL back in ‘99. As a former agnostic I enjoy a lot of the intelligent conversation (and fun Girl Scout banter) that exists in anti-faith groups.

By: Anatoly

Anatoly — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:28:24 +0000

Well if this has the same effect as the heart attack patients study then please do, pray away! France could always use more atheists.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:51:14 +0000

What if I pray for less religion, open-mindedness, rationality and spanking guinea pigs? Would that help?

By: Gabriel Brawley

Gabriel Brawley — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:13:47 +0000

Is this a joke? I just glanced over the sight and it has a very Andy Kaufman feel to it.

By: Mriana

Mriana — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:21:23 +0000

scott gray said,

December 27, 2007 at 12:18 pm

it is sad that only 7 people are signed up.

Why is it sad? They have more than enough people to do that thing.

By: Iztok

Iztok — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:12:34 +0000

Thanks Hemant! It works great Now it is easier to follow more blogs

You going to post some about Benazir Bhutto?

By: scott gray

scott gray — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:06:50 +0000

see? if the boy scouts gave away cookies instead of drawing ‘us’ and ‘them’ lines in the sand, they’d be better liked. it’s the hospitality that matters; you can always catch more flies, regardless of religious preference, with honey. or cookies.