Can people help me clear something up? It's bothered me for a long time, and I'm honestly not trying to be a jackass:
If God is all-knowing, and all-wise, and has a plan (which is implicitly perfect) for how history will unfold, and if it's vain and irreligious to question His will, then how/why is prayer supposed to work? If you ask nicely enough, often enough, He might just change his mind on your behalf? Isn't it vain an irreligious to think that you know better than He what is best? How is prayer not blasphemy?
Help me out here.