I am going to be annoying.

Some years ago, an evangelist invented a battery that he said would store prayers. The faithful, for a small payment, could pray into it until the power of thousands of prayers was stored up. Then, in a great world crisis, he would turn on the battery and bombard God with thousands of prayers.

That makes as much sense to me as most of what I have heard about prayer.

Is there a 'general concensus' in the United Church, about praying for the dead? Mormonism holds this belief.