when something happens to you and its distressing most idiotic thing people can tell you is "ill pray for you" like really? try doing something usefull? how tf will your prayer help me with anything ? want to help give me money or something ifi wanted to pray to the wind i could do that myself

They will either pray for you or wish you well. Have your pick. :)

That's how religious people show their appreciation, don't see any negatives there. People are different

I agree

praying is 1 form of group think, but only if enough people are thinking of the same thing. When enough people all say they will pray, they are getting together on the same idea and helping it to happen. Its not that the thought reaches some magical being and gets answered, its more like the power of the mind being concentrated enough so that something actually can happen. When enough people are all thinking good thoughts about the same thing, then the amount of energy (small per person) gathered slowly effects the outcome. Its similar to running an electric light or clock from a potato, there is also energy in each person.

LIGHTEN up! They mean well.

I'd take an I'll pray for you over some of the **** I've heard from religious people over the years.
Probably the worst experience was when my special needs son turned 12 and literally started losing his proverbial ****. One minute happy, the next trying to rip your head off. Eventually we had to make the decision to put him into a group home. That was worse than us being assaulted on the daily, as the only home that would take him was worse than a gulag. At any rate. One of my ex-friends, who happened to be a born again (read the most judgmental Christians of all) tells me, as I'm telling her how close I am to losing my mind over the stress, "God only gives you tests he knows you can pass". If she'd been in the same room with me, she'd have seen my jaw drop. So from her perspective, you know since God controls everything dontcha know, that it's perfectly acceptable for her god to torture a special needs child to teach me a lesson... I was already an atheist at that point and she got both barrels. Haven't talked to her in over a decade. I can deal with stupidity to a degree, but that kind of stupidity has no place in my life.

plug'n pray! 🤣

Two hands working accomplish more than a million hands clasped in prayer.