Can Atheists Pray to God? A Philosophical Appraisal
A well-established dichotomy, shared by both theists and atheists, has it that in order to offer a petitionary prayer to God one must be theist, implying that atheists (including agnostics) cannot pray to God. A number of philosophers, from different doctrinal backgrounds, have recently cast doubt on this, taking it to be a false dichotomy. […]