Thats what Buddhists do.. Write down prayers and repeat them over and over again.. They even put them on prayer wheels.. There are different kinds of prayer wheels(i.e.rosary).. or repeated rote prayer.. Prayer to a Robotic God..
The Buddhists actually write down prayers of various kinds even praise and adoration put it on a prayer wheel and let the wind turn the wheel thinking the Robotic God will even hear, know, and care.. The Buddhist God is either a Moron.. or an Appliance..
Some christians do the same thing in essence..
Ahem. FK and I were talking about the concept of the indwelling of the Spirit. I thought that passage I quoted might shed light on that subject.
(Cranmer was pretty much of a Calvinist and I would have thought his work would have received a less nervous reaction, and the crime of writing it would have been overlooked in the excellence of what he had written. Silly me, I haven't found the part of the Bible that says don't write prayers. Maybe it's in the Psalms?)
... in essence..
I look forward to seeing evidence that come Christians really (as opposed to "in essence") teach that their God is a Robotic God. In fact, since I know a little something about the Vajrayana I'd settle for evidence that the teachers of that school think that about either Buddha or Bodhisattva.
What I do have evidence of ('cause I saw them when I was little)is a bunch of movies by westerners about Tibetan practices which would lead a child or anyone fool enough to think that movie-makers are theologians to think that Tibetans are also fools.
OR we could stop taking little underhanded digs at one another and we could talk about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.