If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

[chinu]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

 

[JustGeorge]

Who said they can't?

 

[Valjean]

They don't have the insecurity that led humans to invent a mythology of significance and purpose?
They grow up and no longer feel the need for a strong, protective father-figure?

 

[Mock Turtle]

They probably haven't got such a concept?

 

[oldbadger]

I can talk to folks, and yet I don't pray to God either.
Why would I?
God is too huge to be aware of me.

 

[Rye_P]

Because they don't talk?

 

[Secret Chief]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

Because praying and God are both human psychological constructs.

 

[Aupmanyav]

We have destroyed some animals psychologically. They pray to humans waving their tails, doggies in particular. We use the name of their species as an abuse.

 

[SalixIncendium]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

Just pointing out that humans are animals. But I know what you intended in your question...

How do you know they cannot or do not? Have you asked an animal? More importantly, has s/he answered?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Because they don't talk?

Clearly you've never encountered Barbas.

Or met a Khajiit.

But all seriousness aside, just because a being doesn't speak your language doesn't mean it doesn't talk.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Because praying and God are both human psychological constructs.

As I alluded to in my response to the OP, how do you know this if you haven't experienced being an animal other than human?

 

[Secret Chief]

As I alluded to in my response to the OP, how do you know this if you haven't experienced being an animal other than human?

AFAIK there has not been any evidence of this. I could be wrong of course. I have seen Planet of the Apes. Maybe chimpanzees know of praying and of deities, but that they all identify with atheism; agnosticism at least.

 

[Secret Chief]

But all seriousness aside, just because a being doesn't speak your language doesn't mean it doesn't talk.

Dolphins have a larger vocabulary than Donald Trump. I admit that's a low bar.

 

[ChristineM]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

Why would they? God is a human construct

 

[Rye_P]

Clearly you've never encountered Barbas.

Or met a Khajiit.

But all seriousness aside, just because a being doesn't speak your language doesn't mean it doesn't talk.

I don't find how they talk is similar with us.

 

[Mock Turtle]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

Please elaborate a process by which they might do so - which I asked in another thread I believe.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If animals can talk to each other, then why can't they pray to God ?

The only one that prays is the mantis, and says, "Please God, deliver me thine meal to eat and please don't deliver a mate that may eat me. Amen".

 

[SigurdReginson]

They can't because animals don't have souls... Whatever that means.

 

[chinu]

They don't have the insecurity that led humans to invent a mythology of significance and purpose?
They grow up and no longer feel the need for a strong, protective father-figure?

How came you know this ?
When animals told this to you about ?

 

[chinu]

They probably haven't got such a concept?

Why NOT ?