Friday, March 31, 2006
Study: Prayer doesn't affect heart patients
... hmmm. Color me shocked!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html
"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 just a possibility." - the lack of effort on one's own part to fight. If you believe that someone is going to help you, then you don't have the need to fight as hard yourself.
The problem with science, is that as we grow in our knowledge, the wonders that God was once responsible for are no longer are needed.
Don't get me wrong. I believe in the power of Faith and that the Church can help people because it can make you stronger and have something to grasp on to when you think there is nothing else left ... it's just not for me.
Maybe if all the Faiths in the World would quit fighting and acknowledge one another, I would think about joining the faith. How can any person in their right mind shun another faith when 90% of believers only believe in the faith that they do because of where they were born and/or the faith of their parents ... i like to call it Social Brainwashing. If every new born was completely isolated from religion and science until they were in their early teens and able to make sound judgements on their own (ignoring the obvious errors in this statement as we know the mistakes in judgements made by teens) ... what choices do you think they would make in the way of religion and science ... it's hard to say, but I strongly believe that our religious groups would be a lot smaller and have a lot less power. I honestly feel sorry for children brought up in religious households as they lose the power of choice. It's like the old saying, "you hear something enough, you start to believe it". Well, it's true and that's what these children are subjected too. Think of your parents telling you are ugly or fat only a handful of times ... you start to believe it regardless of how beautiful you are, even when your friends tell you. Well, mutliply that by infinity and you know have what these kids grow up with.
... end rant.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html
"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 just a possibility." - the lack of effort on one's own part to fight. If you believe that someone is going to help you, then you don't have the need to fight as hard yourself.
The problem with science, is that as we grow in our knowledge, the wonders that God was once responsible for are no longer are needed.
Don't get me wrong. I believe in the power of Faith and that the Church can help people because it can make you stronger and have something to grasp on to when you think there is nothing else left ... it's just not for me.
Maybe if all the Faiths in the World would quit fighting and acknowledge one another, I would think about joining the faith. How can any person in their right mind shun another faith when 90% of believers only believe in the faith that they do because of where they were born and/or the faith of their parents ... i like to call it Social Brainwashing. If every new born was completely isolated from religion and science until they were in their early teens and able to make sound judgements on their own (ignoring the obvious errors in this statement as we know the mistakes in judgements made by teens) ... what choices do you think they would make in the way of religion and science ... it's hard to say, but I strongly believe that our religious groups would be a lot smaller and have a lot less power. I honestly feel sorry for children brought up in religious households as they lose the power of choice. It's like the old saying, "you hear something enough, you start to believe it". Well, it's true and that's what these children are subjected too. Think of your parents telling you are ugly or fat only a handful of times ... you start to believe it regardless of how beautiful you are, even when your friends tell you. Well, mutliply that by infinity and you know have what these kids grow up with.
... end rant.
# posted by AllCdnBoy @ 3:06 PM 
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There are a lot of people that lose their faith and regain it, and I doubt that any of them return to the exact views handed down by their parents. Faith, like a muscle, returns stronger after it is broken down and rebuilt, and everyone it tested at one point or another. Even Christ had his moments of coubt. Children and teenagers are rarely equipped to rebuild their faith on their own, though most adults will. I agree that we have to help ourselves. God doesn't work for us, he works through us;)
Humans are just obsessed with the how and why's. Being raised as a Catholic had me looking to god for so many explanations to my unending questioning of the world, then I discovered science and all the proof of how the world works, grows, dies. It both facinated and confused me. I dont believe religion is a good thing but spirituality is a very human thing. I believe in science and yet the only unanswered is how the energy was origionally created to start this crazy world, universe, and ever expanding horizon we discover.
the first nuron, proton, electron ever created...from...what? So I guess I do believe in a someone or a something that started it all but I dont put it in a box called religion and claim I know their or its name and thought or purpose for it all.
omg I ramble! lol >.<
just finished playing WoW for the night (expansion midnight madness!) and did a search for other Kelowna players and found this blog so if I make no sence ir spell like crap its because I'm super tired >.>
the first nuron, proton, electron ever created...from...what? So I guess I do believe in a someone or a something that started it all but I dont put it in a box called religion and claim I know their or its name and thought or purpose for it all.
omg I ramble! lol >.<
just finished playing WoW for the night (expansion midnight madness!) and did a search for other Kelowna players and found this blog so if I make no sence ir spell like crap its because I'm super tired >.>
that's pretty funny ... i just finished playing too, but i don't have the expansion yet ... busy fixing a friends computer, so killing time with WoW :)
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