Good news, Twitler's national day of prayer worked!

[beam me up scottie]

Disclaimer: this is posted in the Atheists and Agnostics group where we like to poke fun at religion.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. That is..........

the first thing the Pugs send out for every mass shooting event (with NOTHING to follow).

[beam me up scottie]

2. Yep. Prayer: How to do nothing and pretend you helped

[mountain grammy]

6. Perfect.

[beam me up scottie]

7. Hey mountain grammy!

[Voltaire2]

3. its a miracle!

[beam me up scottie]

4. You mock but I've heard stories!

Oh wait...

Study Concludes Intercessory Prayer Doesn’t Work; Christians Twist the Results

I was reading an article in Christianity Today and one of the paragraphs made me do a double-take. I couldn’t believe anyone was actually writing it… it was incredible how much fact-twisting was going on.

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This idea has been tested repeatedly — usually, the studies have flaws. And even when the results show that the intercessory prayer has no effect on anyone, those who believe in it will look at the hits and ignore (or rationalize) the misses.

Three years ago, a multi-million-dollar, controlled, double-blind study was conducted to test intercessory prayer.

The Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) found two major results:

1) “Intercessory prayer had no effect on recovery from surgery without complications.”

2) “Patients who knew they were receiving intercessory prayer fared worse.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2009/05/15/study-concludes-intercessory-prayer-doesnt-work-christians-twist-the-results/

[Mr.Bill]

5. At the very least,

I guess it could have a placebo effect on some people.

My wife is a retired nurse, and she has seen an actual improvement in a patients condition, even if only temporary after a Native American performed a healing ceremony in their room.

[Voltaire2]

8. Does it have to be explained why anecdotal evidence

is not proof of efficacy?

[Mr.Bill]

9. Yeah, that's why I said

some people. And I didn't represent my story about the Native American as anything but anecdotal.

[progressoid]

10. what you athisests don't understand is that it DOES work!1!

In fact, its very scientific. We just need more poeple praying to offset the negativity from the athiests and the infidels and the fornicators. It's simple math.

God is a busy guy - fighting evil like a super hero. If you want you prayers answered, you better get a mega church praying for you.

[beam me up scottie]

11. Rite??

My brother-in-law's second cousin Gladys had cancer and after months of consultations, treatments and expert care by medical professionals she's in remission.

That PROOFS prayer works!

Athiessts and their science, where did all that fancy book lernin get us anyway?












Disclaimer: this is sarcasm. Atheists are required to be sarcastic, you don't get your official badge and secret decoder ring unless you swear an oath to be as sarcastic as heathenly possible. Failure to comply may result in revocation of your atheist card.

[Voltaire2]

12. whenever I hear about a scientific prayer study in progress I immediately start sacrificing goats

to offset to do-gooders praying for healing.