I was raised Catholic, but found it insufficient, then became atheist, and also found it insuffieicent. Now I am Agnostic so in the case of trying to pick who I will pray to then I hit a wall, because I find my current knowledge about reality not enough for me to even determine the existence of God, not a christian god or a greek god or an egyptian god but the central idea of God withouth the religious filter.

And I think even If I found one of those figures more favorable over the others I would not pray to them anyways. I never liked the idea of asking for stuff or trying to talk to a methaphysical being by using physical means. (makes no sense to me to do that)

Many, not all but a number of those people, Christ, Buddha, Allah, etc are still a part of society for a reason, because they have said powerful or influential ideas regardless of whether or not these people are somehow sacred.

So I just try to focus on what their ideas were, I dont care (at least at this point) about picking a side, I don't think is even a good thing to do.

Many of them mean someting to me, in the sense that I find their perceptions of the world worth looking at, at least to understand why people go as far as attaching faith to them. But I refuse to just concentrate on one of them or just on the main ones, that's why I look at them in a philosophical sense so that I can juxtaspose them with philosophers. Just by doing that you can tell how Buddha said many of the things Jesus said waaay before he even showed up, so the 'wisdom' of jesus is nothing new nor revolutionary. And then compare how Socrates presented his ideas in comparison to those two? He does a much better job in my opinion. But I would have never came to these conclusions if I had chosen to just pray to a single one.

But I cant be a perfectly objective person, there is always some bias and in my case it would be towards Buddha. Mainly because if you think about it, he never declared he was a supreme being and he said:

""Be an island unto yourselves; be a refuge unto yourselves; seek no refuge in others."

So to pray to him or "seek refuge in buddha" makes no sense! I really don'tunderstand why people pray to Buddha. Is like they did not read what he said!

This quote explains it better than me:

"To depend on others for salvation is negative, but to depend on oneself is positive." Dependence on others means a surrender of one's effort."

"Be an island unto yourselves; be a refuge unto yourselves; seek no refuge in others."

These significant words uttered by the Buddha in His last days are very striking and inspiring. They reveal how vital is self-exertion to accomplish one's ends, and how superficial and futile it is to seek redemption through benignant saviours, and crave for illusory happiness in an afterlife through the propitiation of imaginary gods by fruitless prayers and meaningless sacrifices.



So to sum up, faith/prayer is not my thing, at least at the moment. I prefer to just learn as many sides as I can, compare them, and see if there is any pattern among the things they have said.

I could care less if they are "holy beings" or not.