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I was bored at work, so I do what I sometimes do when my mind is given too much time or not enough stimulus: Math.

So I thought to myself about the logistics behind a god that can supposedly listen to all the prayers you give.

For the purposes of this exercise, let us only use a rough estimate of christians for prayers being listened to, as incorporating more only complicates things further, and I didn't really feel like it.

We will begin with the idea that at any one event, (Pope Christening or something) we can expect the majority of christians to be praying, or roughly two and a half billion people.

Now, let us also assume that the average prayer is a certain number of characters long, in this case, 93, (the number of characters in the bed time prayer recited by children, the one that begins "Now I lay my head to sleep" sans punctuation, as comma placement can be argued) is the length of the prayer.

So 2.5 billion times 93 is 232500000000. So to process this entire prayer properly, in the span of a second, God must be processing at roughly 232.5 Ghz. This doesn't take into account the amount of RAM he must have, or the actual processing power to execute such a prayer (Several gigahertz of processing power is great for math, but how do you add and subtract "print screen", much less, asking the lord to keep your soul in the event of death in the middle of the night) or the hard drive space nescesary to store such a command should god ever shut off... etc. etc.

My computer has about 3.006 Ghz and a gig of RAM at 2100. I imagine merely to open that much in notepad may crash it. To send that much information at standard American Broadband speeds (not to be confused with America Online, I use roadrunner) would take a couple hours, given normal network usage (ya know, cause Ganesh totally likes to pull down a couple megs of furry pr0n every now and then) and low latency.

I would like to ask a few questions when I really think about it, like what is God's typical response time? I never really got a response when I prayed, so I can't answer this myself, but I'm sure it's not instantaneous, is a few second delay normal? I imagine it is. Does God communicate in complete proper sentences, or does he use an abbrieviated form similar to net speak?

Google returns well over a couple terrabytes of responses in normally around 2 seconds, so could it be said Google is faster then God? I find Google is a lot more honest with it's responses and obviously a lot quicker. Should I pray to Google? No. That's just silly, but,

I will say, asking Google has certainly provided me with a good deal more useful information. And Google has never ignored me, or sent it's minions to my house to try to convince me to believe in unicorns (Literal belief in the bible requires belief in unicorns. Look it up, I'll have the verses myself in the Artist's comments here in a minute, they're there.)