prayer

I have used prayer before and never was seeking "comfort" or asking for a certain outcome. Rather for something like a boost in some kind of strength, insight or institution. For my purposes, it doesn't really matter if God exists. I just know that if I use it this way, it seems to alter my...

The Power of Prayer. In a recent thread I made this comment in a post: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9349790&postcount=161 Now I was being tongue in cheek as well as realizing that some find the word ‘Prayer’ to be ‘wooish’ and are easily offended by such...

This is an open invitation to theists and nontheists alike to participate in a series of experiments. The challenge: Within a reasonable time span (for example, 2 hours on a specific date), can you get prayers, magic, or non-divine intense thinking to actually work? If so, under what...

just posting to show, not all conservative christians support what Gov. Rick Perry is doing on august 6th http://www.worldviewweekend.com/brannon-howse/radio.php is a radio host I am a fan of and he has been very vocal on what is wrong with the response prayer gathering of rick perry's...

http://redd.it/hed7y PZ's take on this: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/standard_small_town_saga.php The graduation is tonight. Here's an update from the student's brother: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/hed7y/threatened_to_contact_aclu_for_prayer_at/c1uut0n

sl7TBjRI9LE :jaw-dropp I'd rather celebrate Cinco de Mayo. :)

I'm 63 and I've been plagued with asthma all of my life. Ok when I was five during my asthma spells while being comforted by my sweet old Grandmother she told me how wonderful jesus was and how I should pray to him for my sins and to be healed from the stinking disease that was plagueing me...

SCENE: WONDERLIC TEST AT NFL COMBINE Response from another player: How many times can a religious nut bug you about Jeebus before you snap? Do you think Tebow prayed to Jeebus in order to save the foul-mouthed heathen...

The new leader of England & Wales' Catholics says: While the article suggests, unconvincingly: More here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6838451.ece

Is God protecting Florida at Governor Crist's request?

Hi, i am new on this board. I hope you do not mind me trying to solve my problems here. I suffer from OCD in combination with a condition called magical thinking (that means I am afraid I can hurt other people with my thoughts or actions or prayers, that I needed to ask God for forgiveness if I...

In Matthew 6:9-13, Jesus gave an example of how to pray, which became the "Our Father" prayer. This prayer is frequently recited by millions of Christians worldwide. I recently considered the context of it and I'd like to share my observations and questions. Our Father, who art in heaven, To...

I know this may seem like a stupid question, but I'm quite curious. I now call myself a "Catholic Atheist" (to those among whom I am "out" as an atheist, which is another matter altogether), because, to paraphrase the common saying, "you can take the boy out of the church, but you can't take...

more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7863699.stm

There have been many posts on the JREF forums which, in no uncertain terms, discuss the uselessness of prayer in conjunction with the scientific method; ie prayer has been shown not to affect the outcome of a situation. Obviously, this observation could be highly variable depending on who is...

It's one thing when a religious person is going through some pain, and asks an atheist for their prayers because they don't realize they're talking to an atheist. Then there's the real classy version of this move, when they ask for your prayers because they know you're an atheist: Note that...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/prayer_pr.html I was surfing the net and I put Faith healing is bogus and this what what turned up. Does anyone in here know anything about this experiment? It sounds like total woo woo crap to me.

Just how much truth is in these reports, I wonder? http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5itR3ObU5KN4KQ6ECht004C7cysFA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html...

June 20 is the day. Here is a site that tracks the daily gas price average. Today, 6/16, it is $4.080 (the national average).

Last night one of our local TV stations ran a fairly lengthy story about a very attractive local 21 year young lady who is, most unfortunately, dying of cancer. Few tragedies can be worse than the loss of a beloved child, so of course like everyone else viewing this story I felt a powerful...

Hello everyone :) I just wanted to take some advice on a really uncomfortable situation happening at work: I recently started working at a retail store and there's a really big group of employees. We took a training about a week ago and it was clearly stated that there would be NO discussion...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/26/BUCN10C1KR.DTL&hw=pray+gas+prices&sn=003&sc=638 More at link.

From the Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) Saturday 12th April 2008: Intelligence agent shot dead ISLAMABAD: Gunmen in a car shot dead an intelligence agent in Pakistan's north-western Charsadda town yesterday. Khaliq Khan, head of the Intelligence Bureau in Charsadda, was killed on his way home after...

Great excuse for being late for work... But who'd believe it? The bus company didn't when a man complained. Good job he got it on video (scroll halfway down page). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article976258.ece Whatever next?

How many times do we have to be sickened by this sort of "parental" behaviour? http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gy_FocuLcPyslOqVeaOFan8yo7eQD8VLUSO01 I truly hope this couple is convicted of child abuse, and their other children are taken away from them.

Horrifying news article from my home town: Link. This shows: A. Prayer is not effective. B. The parents didn't pray hard enough. C. God refused to answer this prayer. I'm going for option A.

From Foxnews this morning: And what did the 11 year old girl suffer from you ask? A treatable form of diabetes. She needless suffered for about a month from nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness before she died. How sad....

Why God keeps silent to somebody even after intensive cry? Ans. A diabetic patient cries before a doctor to get a sweet for eating. The doctor has infinite number of sweets and he does not worry at all for giving a sweet to the patient. You are crying before God, who is the divine father...

Came across this in a local bookstore:

In order to disprove that prayer works ... sorry, allow me to re-phrase that ... in order to test whether or not prayer works, would it not be possible to survey a representative sample of people, some who believe in prayer and pray, and some who don't, and compare the results to see whether...