CeilingCat
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| Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 24 2010,08:56) | | Quote (CeilingCat @ Sep. 24 2010,07:47) | | Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Sep. 24 2010,06:31) | | Quote (oldmanintheskydidntdoit @ Sep. 23 2010,09:04) | Gordon Mullings proves the power of prayer:
| Quote | | I will leave most details to others, just first noting on one of your red herring tracks that there are millions who will testify to you on experience that prayer works. In fact, that I am alive, have enough breath to post, and have enough back to sit up are ALL answers to prayer, in astonishingly and obviously miraculous ways. |
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"In a dangerous world there will always be more people around whose prayers for their own safety have been answered than those whose prayers have not."
Nicholas Humphrey's Law of the Efficacy of Prayer |
Especially when the ones who didn't get their prayers answered are dead. |
Humphrey's law is very sly. |
Having thought about it for a while, I think Humphrey is wrong. In the real world, believers are always praying about everything. I know people who pray every time they get in their car. "Oh Lord, I beseech thee, guide and protect me on my perilous journey and deliver me to Wal-Mart safely that I may participate in their sale of lawn-care products."
Of course, people commonly make it to Wal-Mart, prayer or no prayer, so most of those prayers get "answered". In normal life, the percentage of people whose prayers have been answered must approach 100%. When an occasional Wal-Mart bound believer plows into a gasoline truck it's just another person whose prayers were answered checking out. I don't think it would affect the statistics a bit.
Actually, their last prayers are answered too. The answer just happens to be, "No."
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