Prayer doesn't work.

I'm glad the god you pray to answered your prayers concerning issues in your life which already had a good probability of coming to fruition without said prayers. Of course, you never remember the countless times when your prayers went unanswered, but you easily remember the 'answered' ones. Has it occurred to you that an answered prayer is nothing more than a coincidence? You count the hits but ignore the misses, it's only natural.
In other news, 21000 children died today due to hunger and preventable diseases; and all the while their parents were praying for food and medicine which never came. If you have a direct line to god, would you mind sharing it with the rest of us, or at least passing the information on to those who need it?

If you got a raise, it's either because you deserved it or your company gives raises after a certain period of time. If you did good on an exam, you probably prepared for it. If the event you hosted was a success, probably had something to do with all the effort and planning you put into it. Anything you've ever prayed for which came true was already a distinct possibility, however remote.

This god of yours is perfectly willing to cure diseases which are curable through modern medicine; and to save people who were in no need of saving. But god has never healed an amputee. Not once. HE has never done anything which wasn't already agreed upon as being within the realm of possibility. If you didn't die in a hurricane, thanking god for answering your prayers is an insult to the hundreds or thousands who did die, many of whom were probably more virtuous than yourself. When the inexplicable happens - god is mysterious. When god got rid of your zit in time for your best friend's wedding - HE answered your prayers? Get the fuck outta here.

The arrogance of claiming that a supernatural being beyond comprehension cares in the slightest what becomes of you is ridiculous on a cosmic scale. You, who are no more or less deserving of happiness and joy than anyone else, who probably started life better off than three quarters of the rest of the world simply due to the geographic location of your birth or the education level of your parents, you have the audacity to claim that an all-powerful god cares enough to grant your wish, but not the wishes of people dying from hunger and disease in misery and pain? This is perhaps the greatest insult you can inflict on the rest of humanity; that your wants and desires are somehow more deserving when they are no such thing. And please, spare me the rationalizations, "god is mysterious; we have free will so it's our fault these people are dying, not his." If you want to argue the latter, fine, but then you can't say that there is such as thing as answered prayers, and the free will argument doesn't cover natural disasters and non-preventable, non-curable diseases. It IS our fault people die from starvation every day, or from lack of access to vaccinations and clean drinking water. But if god answered prayers, why would he answer yours and not theirs? Your answered prayer is a coincidence that you happened to remember and decided to attribute to an imaginary friend.

Again, the best example I've ever come across is god's fervent refusal to heal amputees. He has never and will never re-grow a limb for anyone. It's convenient that he's willing to cure diseases which are already curable due to the only true miracles, and which are completely man-made: science, and modern medicine. A prayer-answering god is as imaginary as it gets.