For each prayer, user would be able to define a contractual TOS [Terms of Service] for the fulfillment of that prayer-contract. It would include something like:
- Conditions required to be met for fulfillment of said prayer
- Any offerings or sacrifices which will be or have been made as payment for fulfillment (ie, a prayer-bounty) and when they will be made
Just some ideas.
There should also be elements designed to protect or indemnify any deity which agrees to take up a prayer request (whether or not it has the "power" to fulfill that request). So that the deity cannot be blamed, should the supplicant decide they are unhappy with the outcome of the prayer - especially despite the fact that it follow the letter of the conditions set-out in the TOS agreement between supplicant & deity.
Or, for example, fulfilling deity would have some recourse should the user promise to make a sacrifice/offering, but then fail to do so...
Also, of course there should be protection on the part of the supplicant, so that marauding deities don't go around gobbling up or hoarding prayer requests (without fulfilling them, or fulfilling them poorly) and thereby preventing other deities from actualizing the requests.
Maybe users would be able to rate (via a system of 5-stars?) the reliability and efficacy of a deity's powers of prayer fulfillment... Perhaps that should be a separate issue...
For each prayer, user would be able to define a contractual TOS [Terms of Service] for the fulfillment of that prayer-contract. It would include something like:
Just some ideas.
There should also be elements designed to protect or indemnify any deity which agrees to take up a prayer request (whether or not it has the "power" to fulfill that request). So that the deity cannot be blamed, should the supplicant decide they are unhappy with the outcome of the prayer - especially despite the fact that it follow the letter of the conditions set-out in the TOS agreement between supplicant & deity.
Or, for example, fulfilling deity would have some recourse should the user promise to make a sacrifice/offering, but then fail to do so...
Also, of course there should be protection on the part of the supplicant, so that marauding deities don't go around gobbling up or hoarding prayer requests (without fulfilling them, or fulfilling them poorly) and thereby preventing other deities from actualizing the requests.
Maybe users would be able to rate (via a system of 5-stars?) the reliability and efficacy of a deity's powers of prayer fulfillment... Perhaps that should be a separate issue...