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In reply to the discussion: Woman on CNN tells Wolf " um i am actually a Atheist" [View all]RVN VET
(492 posts)Prayer can help get believers through some seriously hard times. It can't fix a broken leg, but it can calm a person down and help relieve anxiety and stifle fear. And it can calm a person down enough to enable that person to survive semi-burial after a tornado crushes the building he/she is in. Belief, strange as it sounds, can help some people actually be "healed" by charlatan faith healers, too. It's all due, of course, to the power and mystery of the human mind. If anything like a "god" were involved, the dead would come back to life, the disfigured made whole, etc., etc. But still . . .
(I take back the "anyone's" in my title above. There's one party -- or Party -- I'd love to poop on; and I'd like to start with both Senators from Oklahoma.)