Faith Based Governmental Funding Works in Mysterious Ways

I had heart surgery about 18 months ago, and I wish I knew then that the prayer of strangers would not help me recover. I would never have hung that banner out my hospital window asking random passers-by to pray for me. As you could have guessed, our librul media (ahem, NYTimes) did not report the full story. The version of this on Yahoo is a little better:

The highly anticipated study "did not move us forward or backward" in understanding the effects of prayer, said Dr. Charles Bethea, a co-author and cardiologist at the Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. "Intercessory prayer under our restricted format had a neutral effect."

Um, yeah. Neither forward or backward. Here's how "backward" applies to this story. It's backwards to use science to study faith. Some people believe in each, some people only believe in one or the other, and I suppose some people believe in neither (probably Michelle Malkin). Here's how "forward" applies to this story. Our culture as a whole would move forward if we would have used the $2.4 million for better social purposes, such as sending FEMA to unlock some trailers in New Orleans.

I'm sure glad the quacks scientists that ran this study were ethical. Lord knows the results would have been different had they prayed for a different outcome.