Please help me understand this argument

[Montalban]

Well, it's part of the famous "Our Father"-prayer, isn't it? And that, in turn, is how Jesus specifically instructed his followers to pray. I wonder why so many do not heed his words on the matter.

If you want me to list Christians who don't keep to Jesus' teachings I'd be forever, but start with me. I often fail.

That, naturally, is the sort of prayer I can relate to; the sort of prayer that makes sense, given your theological premises. You can hardly confuse it with the practices I criticized here, can you?

I'm not saying that PRAYER is incompatible with the Christian God. I'm specifically talking about prayers whose main objective is getting your (material) wishes fulfilled by supernatural means. Heck, there are even PRAYER CIRCLES, as if your God could be bribed or bullied by sheer numbers.

Yes, there's the prosperity gospel idea that if we want something we pray to God.

I think Orthodox are more for saying prayer is about changing our state to be like God.