prayer

I have been skimming a few religious sites and I notice that so many feel that School Prayer is some kind of Magic Pill that will solve all our problems in school and life. What is their reasoning and why is prayer going to stop all the problems when all the religion in our world has yet to...

Just finished attending this lecture at the Virginia EMS Symposium. The class/discussion was off to a rough start when it turned out the original presenter had to bow out. A family emergency had a child in the hospital.... One of the state employees stepped up to the plate, one who...

Mark it. Sept 16th ! I think we can just 'remember' too, although that is obviously an inferior activity.

I'm a prehospital care provider in Virginia, and just recieved the course offerings for the Virginia Symposium, an annual conference offering classes on a number of EMS and medical topics. Much to my suprise, one of the topic offerings is "Is Prayer good medicine", a two hour class on the last...

No, they will sell it on eBay, thereby nullifying their claim that they are believers. How can you sell a sign sent to you by God?

Found this in the Navy Times: http://www.navytimes.com/print.php?f=0-NAVYPAPER-942640.php "When asked about the tradition of having a noon meal prayer at the Naval Academy, Superintendent Vice Adm. Rodney Rempt said the nondenominational prayer will continue. Retired Gen. Charles Krulak —...

Do you ever fake pray just to be socailly acceptable? I have endured the evil eye several times for not participating in group prayer. Sometimes life would be easier if I just pretended to be one of the pod people how do other handle such situations?

http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2005/07/14/hscout526845.html

I thought I would post this here because it was on CNN today. Article

Hi tech prayer wheels are not new. http://www.fpmt.org/resources/mani.asp Once you accept the concept of mechanised praying, you use whatever technology maximises the (axiomatic) benefit. BugBear

Prayer in Public Schools (USA) David Rice (Desertphile) During my once-a-month sojourns into town for groceries, I also visit the local library to check my e-mail. Last Thursday I was sitting on a stool in the library's computer desk going through my e-mail when a teenager sat down at the...

Research into prayer, fertility link now doubted Ah, the New York Times. Is there anything NOT fit to print to those Bozos? Oh yeah. Anything skeptical. Of miracles, WMD claims of the Bush administration. etc.

If you're incredibly credulous, chalk up another hit for the power of prayer/dreams/clairvoyance. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=4&u=/ap/20041011/ap_on_re_us/found_alive Edited to add: I just noticed that the story has been changed, and the prayer/dream...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/health/10prayer.html?hp&ex=1097467200&en=b3de3a2c07ddbf8e&ei=5094&partner=homepage Seems the US Government is supporting some of this drivel. Really amazing.

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Wierd column today reports (not on the website yet) That overworked Catholic Clergy in the USA, Canada, and Europe are outsourcing certain ritual prayer requests from thier parishoners to Catholic clergy in India. Indian priests said the requests are typically...

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Wierd column today reports (not on the website yet) That overworked Catholic Clergy in the USA, Canada, and Europe are outsourcing certain ritual prayer requests from thier parishoners to Catholic clergy in India. Indian priests said the requests are typically...

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Wierd column today reports (not on the website yet) That overworked Catholic Clergy in the USA, Canada, and Europe are outsourcing certain ritual prayer requests from thier parishoners to Catholic clergy in India. Indian priests said the requests are typically...

From http://www.circleofprayer.com/prayerbook.html Yes, God, please keep Satan out of the exam room. Get the local Sunday paper. Look in the Classifieds. Please study harder. If you can't change God's will, why bother praying in the first place? Yeah, God's not busy enough as it is without...

Anybody watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night (rerun today) about the Presidental Prayer Team? http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/ That was SO funny. The Presidental Prayer Team is a bipartisan group which is praying for whichever Bush is President. Meanwhile...

National Prayer Day today. I would not have noticed except the local paper mentioned it: As the walls of mistrust hatred and exclusiveness are raised loudspeakers and sermons proclaiming separation May the sound we hear loudest are the hammers of science and reason pounding at the...

I have a very good friend to whom I revealed my weak atheism a few weeks ago (that damn rule about no prepositions makes awkward sentences...). She asked me (as was pointed out eerily in another recent thread) how should she "pray" for me, or express her generic support? I am personally not...

Another Validating Anecodote™ for allelopathy! Ok, so I've had a tooth ache for a while.... yeah yeah yeah... I know... go see Dr. Pain the dentist. But I've been using a combination of homeopathy (tap water) and prayer (please go away tooth ache) to keep my tooth problems at bay... Well, I...

So, I've got a former roommate who's like a little sister to me and she's going through some rough times. A rather protracted and lengthy amount of rough times in point of fact. And as people often do, she has turned to God, probably for the first time in her life. Although her family isn't...

From the Des Moines Register: Hmm, I wonder how "retroactive" prayer is defined and controlled. Well, no matter. I guess it means that those who were prayed for died less often than others, eh? No, that doesn't seem to be the case: Now, I haven't read the study (it appears in the British...

From the BBC: Link Perhaps this lot didn't pray hard enough?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3306185.stm

People make a big deal about God in the pledge, but what bothers me more is how they start Congress's sessions with a prayer! Were supposed to have Sepatartion of Church n state, but here we have Congress (the virtual core of the State) sponcering a jedu-christian player on the floor of our...

...is a load of bull. I wasn't absolutely sure if this is the right place for this, but considering I happen have a link and this forums name... Well folks, what do you think? I find it hilarious when the good reverend described speaks so emphatically about "not being able to test God". Why...

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/15/npray15.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/15

I've never understood the scientific study of prayer. Are the testers trying to show that God favors the prayed upon more? Or that one religious group is better at praying than others? Or that mass prayer favors the single prayer? Or that the studied prayer outweighs the unstudied prayer...