PRAYER HAS NO PROVABLE EFFECT ON THE RECEIVER, ONLY ON THE PRAY-ER
Why is it that people won’t believe in psychic powers because they’re unable to be reliably duplicated, when the effects of prayer can’t be reliably repeated, either, but are beyond question or doubt REAL? In a double-blind study, those who were prayed for didn’t recover from surgery any faster, nor were their surgeries any more successful than those who were not prayed for.
And let’s remember, for every ‘miracle of healing’ performed at a sacred site, there are thousands, tens of thousands, in some cases millions of penitent visitors who are NOT cured.
Every priest, minister, rabbi, and imam worthy of his or her vocation (including the Pope) has prayed for peace. FOR CENTURIES. But the world has never been at peace. We can pray now for God to save our ecology, but as the prayer for peace mentioned above illustrates, it’s probably not going to happen. Pray for our planet if you wish, but then get up, go out, and make it happen! Just as you should do for peace.
WHAT THE HELL? * * * * * * * RATIONALITY VS SCIENCE &RELIGION * * * * * * * CAN ANY USEFUL SENSE BE FOUND, BETWEEN MEMES, BRAMES AND AN INFINITY OF DIMENSIONS AND UNIVERSES ON THE ONE SIDE AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION, SNAKE-HANDLERS AND MESSIAH-ON-A-POTATO-CHIP ON THE OTHER? A RATIONALIST'S POINT OF VIEW...
1 comment:
Praying to God is not going to help. Because there's no such God who bestows favors on you by being pleased by your prayers. You are right, we need to ACT, rather than PRAY.
Post a Comment