Praying for Heart Patients: A Scientific Study
Praying for patients undergoing heart operations does not improve their outcomes, a US study suggests.
A study found those who were prayed for were as likely to have a setback in hospital, be re-admitted, or die within six months as those not prayed for.
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Golly, what a surprise.
“Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist prayer groups were assigned to pray for 371 of the patients. The rest had no prayer group.”
Although the rest had no prayer group, that does not mean they had no prayers. Family and friends were probably praying for them. Perhaps this accounts for the similar medical outcomes for the two categories.
Why do Christians put so much into praying for themselves and so little on the world’s problems? Could this be the same mind-set that vigorously opposes abortion, extolling the mother to carry the baby to term, yet still blames her for her predicament?
Well, if it makes you feel good, go for it.
Pat – your forgot that as well as “extolling the mother to carry the baby to term, yet still blames her for her predicament” is the execute the child at 13 part of the equation. “But we’ll pray for ’em after the execution”.
Has anyone ever heard of an atheist suicide bomber? I’m just curious.
Maybe now people will stop praying and stop outsourcing prayers too!
the smirks seem kinda odd next to the opportunity to read my daily horoscope
We love irony.
It seems to me answers to prayer are a function of earnest faith and God’s will, not statistics and human whim. Trying to corner God with a “scientific study” is like trying to catch a star with a butterfly net. Wrong tool for an ill-advised conquest!
God does listen to us. Do we listen to God?