Face the Facts about Prayer
After thousands of years of testing, it is time for religious people to face the facts about prayer. It doesn’t work. The only power of prayer is the power to keep someone trying something over and over again long after it’s proven to be ineffective.
A case in point: Yesterday, the New York Times detailed the story of the nun who calls herself Sister Mary Pia. The nun has been praying for an end to the power of Hollywood, which she calls “the Babylon of the U.S.A.”, for 56 years.
If prayer had any power to effect the world, then surely a 56 year-long prayer vigil would show some signs of success. Yet, after two generations of anti-Hollywood prayer by Sister Mary Pia, Hollywood is stronger than ever, and the sisterhood to which Mary Pia belongs has grown weaker.
Facts are facts. Sister Mary Pia’s pointless life of sitting around doing nothing but praying is just one example that proves that prayer doesn’t work.
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