effects of prayer may make matters worse

• casino_king

  3 Apr 06, 19:09

  If you want to get better - don't say a little prayer
  Guardian Unlimited - Mar 31, 2006
  If a religious person offers to pray for you next time you fall ill, you may wish politely to ask them not to bother. The largest scientific study into the health effects of prayer seems to suggest it may make matters worse. ...
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1744493,00.html
• blackchickenahkai

  3 Apr 06, 19:16

  Originally posted by casino_king:

  If you want to get better - don't say a little prayer
  Guardian Unlimited - Mar 31, 2006
  If a religious person offers to pray for you next time you fall ill, you may wish politely to ask them not to bother. The largest scientific study into the health effects of prayer seems to suggest it may make matters worse. ...
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1744493,00.html

  
  so?
  ah duh..
  is there a instrument to measure the spirutial effect?
  ah duiz
• casino_king

  3 Apr 06, 19:20

  Originally posted by blackchickenahkai:

  
  so?
  ah duh..
  is there a instrument to measure the spirutial effect?
  ah duiz

  spiritual effect? what spiritual effect?
  what is spirit? it is non existent.
  it is spiritual effect? it is imagination.
  
  What is the effect of prayer? Delusion.
• maggot

  3 Apr 06, 19:45

  Originally posted by casino_king:

  If you want to get better - don't say a little prayer
  Guardian Unlimited - Mar 31, 2006
  If a religious person offers to pray for you next time you fall ill, you may wish politely to ask them not to bother. The largest scientific study into the health effects of prayer seems to suggest it may make matters worse. ...
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1744493,00.html

  Make the person more worried about his/her condition
  
  Some logic in the link above
  
  My signature also tells the same thing
• cockaholic

  4 Apr 06, 00:32

  its like, ok u have tis relative whom had gone for a risky operation. you oso
  
  cannot do anything for him/her so u juz pray lar...its free and doesnt harm you in
  
  anyway right, whats the matter with praying den?
• banzie

  4 Apr 06, 10:44

  Do not be ignorance by these articles that scares you... If you study probability... a differences between 52% and 48% is not conclusive... You can't conclude anything base on that figure.
• losers.inc

  6 Apr 06, 10:02

  anyway . whats the point hoping for something to happen which you didn't do in the first place ?
• mancha

  8 Apr 06, 03:19

  A doctor once ask his patient to pray.
  The poor patient got scared out of his wits.
  Thought he had a terrible malady.
  
  The doc got some disciplinary action taken against him.
  
  
  
• oxford mushroom

  8 Apr 06, 04:15

  Originally posted by casino_king:

  If you want to get better - don't say a little prayer
  Guardian Unlimited - Mar 31, 2006
  If a religious person offers to pray for you next time you fall ill, you may wish politely to ask them not to bother. The largest scientific study into the health effects of prayer seems to suggest it may make matters worse. ...
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1744493,00.html

  You forgot the last line in this article:
  
  Praying for oneself has been shown in many studies to be effective.