I don’t think this requires an assumption that it’s real at all; a higher level of commitment could very easily lead people to be more lax in their standards for whether a prayer has been “answered,” if we’re looking at it in psychological rather than supernatural terms.
I don’t think this requires an assumption that it’s real at all; a higher level of commitment could very easily lead people to be more lax in their standards for whether a prayer has been “answered,” if we’re looking at it in psychological rather than supernatural terms.