In a special interest forum that I’m a member of, a husband lets us know that his wife just got diagnosed with cancer. (FYI, cancer is light years from the special interest of the forums normal conversation.)
The husband then continues his post by asking for prayers for his wife’s recovery. And the positive responses to his request are massive!
-I’ll pray for you.
-We will pray for your wife.
-Prayers sent.
-God bless your family!
…and it just goes on and on in the same manner!
Except from two replies, there is not a single one offering the husband help and assistance. (I offered him knowledge on the effect of sugar on cancer cells http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1931/warburg-bio.html, another offered him knowledge of alternative medicine for curing cancer.)
This scares the shit out of me!
Now let us, for a second, agree that prayers work…
As God is omnipotent, i.e. all powerful, God is the one who gave her cancer in the very first place. And asking, in prayers, for Gods assistance for her healthy recovery is the same as asking the omniscient, all knowing, God to change his mind.
This leads to the conclusion that IF God do change his mind regarding the wife’s cancer he would not be omniscient, which means that he, by definition, cannot be a God.
Studies shows that prayers are effective around 50% of the time. This means that the chance that the prayers for the wife’s positive recovery – due to prayers sent – is around 50%. Furthermore, it means that the husbands requested prayers only will give him false hope!
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There is no proof what so ever that prayers work. On the contrary, strong proof exist that prayers are counterproductive.
A study on the effects of prayers contained three groups of sick people in a hospital.
-One group knew they had people praying for their healthy recovery.
-One group didn’t know people prayed for their healthy recovery, but people did.
-One group did not have people praying for their healthy recovery and had no knowledge about it.
Statistics showed that the group NOT prayed for did the best.
The group that did the worst was the one that knew people prayed for them. Probable cause; psychological stress from knowing that people prayed for them.
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Prayers are useless. Prayers can add stress to a person’s troubled situation and make it even worse. Prayers are statistically proven not to be answered.
Prayers are proven to be self inflicted indoctrination of hope.
– God doesn’t give a shit about the one prayed for, nor the pleas included, because the man made God is non-existent. –
Praying is the psychological placebo for people who will do absolutely nothing to help you.
We are hungry!
Why isn’t your God listening to your prayers?
Why isn’t your God saving our precious lives?
-Could it be that your God is man made, fake, false, phony, and doesn’t exist?
If your God listen your prayers, why are children like we starving to death?
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Religious people scare the shit out of me!