Prayers don’t help

In what can be filed under the ‘Well-no-du’h-department’, researchers conducted a study about the influence of prayers on heart patients and found that there was no affect. The study asked people to pray for heart bypass surgery patients and found that the patients who knew they were being prayed for had a higher rate of complications.

Researchers emphasized their work does not address whether God exists or answers prayers made on another’s behalf.

Prayer and other things can be used during times of chaos and confusion to calm patients and have them focus on the task at hand. But to think that prayer alone would somehow have a physical effect on a medical procedure is ludicrous at best. Religion has it’s place in a persons life by being the source of strength, confidence and self-esteem. But one must realize the role that religion plays and not put undue faith in it’s ‘miracles’.

To draw strength from religion after a dramatic surgery like heart bypass is one thing, but to blindly expect that religion is going to have any direct impact on the outcome of that surgery is something else.

Cheers

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