I don't see how it would ever be possible to do a prayers answered/not answered survey. The level of honesty required would not be attainable.

On this business of prayers, and I'm assuming we're discussing prayers that ask God (or one of his henchmen/women) for something, as opposed to those which just thank or praise the Lord in all his glory, etc.(those ones don't require answers), it always strikes me that they are the most un-Christian thing. If you ask God for something, someone else will have to have that something diverted away from him. If you ask God to let someone not die, or get better, you are asking him to unreasonably swell the world's population (it exacerbates the situation when you consider that many of these self-same people also oppose contraception and abortion). Asking God to not allow nature to take its course seems unreasonable to me. Liverpool are playing Chelsea this weekend. If I pray that Liverpool win I'm also praying that Chelsea lose. I mean, how fair would God be if he granted my request? If he did, would I be able to claim it as a prayer answered? No wonder the bugger doesn't answer prayers!