I am a religious person because I pray.

In that sense I have a solidarity with all who pray.

I have more in common with the Egyptian Muslim who prays five times a day than with the European secularist who never prays.

I have more in common with the Indian Hindu who prays to Brahma than with the American consumerist who prays to nothing at all.

I have more in common with the mystic Rumi than with the Deist Jefferson.

(That the majority of American evangelicals feel more at home with an Enlightenment secularist than with a Muslim mystic shows just how secular we really are.)

I am a Christian because I pray as a Christian.

I pray to the God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

I pray the prayer Jesus gave his disciples to pray.

I pray the prayers of the Church.

How we pray is how we are formed.

The Hindu is formed by Hindu prayers.

The Jew is formed by Jewish prayers.

The Christian is formed by Christian prayers.

The Muslim is formed by Muslim prayers.

The secularist is ...