--- On Sun, 4/26/09, J. Colaco < jc> <cola...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> He gave me additional reason to believe in my beliefs until
> he places #3 wherein he then goes on to say that we (should) we not
> take our beliefs too seriously. Hummh!
>
Taking beliefs too seriously, in my opinion, is succumbing to excessive
self-righteousness and over-zealousness. To the extent that one can believe
over-zealously in the goodness of all normal human beings and that someone made
a gaffe, I suppose my statement is applicable to these harmless beliefs of mine
as well, or for that matter, this one.
>
> Seriously though, I'd like to study the evidence Santoshbab
> refers to in #4
>
The two most thorough reviews on all the intercessory prayer studies published
so far are:
1. Roberts L, Ahmed I, Hall S, and Davison A (2009) Intercessory prayer for the
alleviation of ill health, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, April
15,(2):CD000368.
2. Masters KS, Spielmans GI, and Goodson JT. (2006) Are there demonstrable
effects of distant intercessory prayer? A meta-analytic review, Annals of
Behavioral Medicine, 32(1):21-6.
Cheers,
Santosh
