Category Archives: Prayer

Money for Prayer in the Health Care Bill?

By vorjack on November 9, 2009 in Politics, Prayer.

by VorJack
The LA Times recently had an article about a small provision in the Senate version of the Heath Care bill:
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments [...]

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God Smites Area Man For Distracting Him From Tree Frogs

By Daniel Florien on September 30, 2009 in God, Humor, Prayer.

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Pat Robertson Only Alive Due to Prayers

By Daniel Florien on September 2, 2009 in Christianity, Medicine, Prayer.

Pat Robertson recently had heart surgery. It was successful, and in a statement Pat said:
Only the prayers of thousands of believing people kept me on this earth.
Way to give credit where credit is due, Pat! Most people give their doctors some of the credit, and others give it all to God. But Pat gives the [...]

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Jerry Falwell’s Son Opens Congress In Prayer

By Daniel Florien on August 3, 2009 in Christianity, Fundamentalism, Politics, Prayer, Religion.

How quaint that we open each session of Congress with prayer. This time Jerry Falwell’s son opens in prayer:

I’m all for people praying in private groups, but I don’t understand why in our secular government we are still opening in prayer to some guy who might have lived 2,000 years ago.
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Praying for Obama’s Death

By Daniel Florien on July 17, 2009 in Bible, Christianity, Politics, Prayer.

Since Pastor Wiley Drake told the world he was praying for Obama’s death, he’s been trying to clarify what he means. You may think that he spends every hour of every day praying for Obama’s death. But he really only spends about 2% of his prayer time praying for the death of the US President:
“That [...]

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Is It a Miracle That Chase Kear Survived?

By Daniel Florien on June 29, 2009 in Miracles, Prayer, Superstition.

Chase Kear’s odds were not good. He was pole vaulting when he fell on his head. Doctors said his brain was swelling and they would need to remove some of his skull. They feared either the surgery or an infection would kill him.
And yet, he survived.
A couple hundred years ago he would have been dead — doctors [...]

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Efficacy of Prayer Positions

By Daniel Florien on June 10, 2009 in Humor, Paranormal, Prayer, Pseudoscience, Superstition, Weird.

Just in case you were wondering, you can immensely improve the quantity of positive energy accessible and decrease interference by negative energies simply by changing your prayer position! Praise Mother Earth!

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