Terry --

I think you're painting with a very broad brush. Larry Dossey has some very interesting reports on statistical experiemtns on the efficacy of benevolent attention on healing processes over distance which you might find enlightening. There are many definitions of prayer, and kneeling in a small uncomfortable place getting pictures of an angry man is probably not the most efficacious, I grant you. It may be a baby versus bathwater thing, though.

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