No need to get on your knees

A recent study has come to a brilliant conclusion. Apparently, " In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart-bypass patients had no effect on their recovery."

Yeah.....this is something we needed a study to prove??? Isn't it sort of a faith-based issue and has no value in the scientific community? That whole man of science/man of faith dichotomy--if you feel like you need to know the specifics of how this EARTH SHATTERING study was conducted, see below:

In the study of 1,800 patients, 59 percent of the patients who knew they were being prayed for developed a complication, versus 52 percent of those who were told it was possible they were being prayed for. For the study, financed by the Templeton Foundation, Christian group volunteers prayed for the well-being of patients for whom they were given the first name and first initial of the last name. The results will appear in the American Heart Journal. Researchers emphasized that their work can't address whether God exists.


Yeah, you read that correctly, "Researchers emphasized that their work can't address whether God exists." You know, that's weird because I was under the impression that if anyone were to prove the existence of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it would be RESEARCHERS...not a priest, a rabbi or even the pope, but medical researchers.......