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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

Back in 2006, Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson led what was then the biggest-ever study of prayer’s effect on health. Funded by the Templeton Foundation — who were quietly praying it would turn out differently — the trial looked at over 1,800 heart bypass patients. Some were told they were being prayed for, some weren’t, and a whole lot of people bowed their heads on their behalf.

The results? Nada. Patients who were prayed for fared no better than those who weren’t. In fact, the ones who knew they were getting divine attention actually had more complications. Apparently being told “God’s got you” can create the kind of stress no anesthesiologist wants to see.

Meanwhile, psychologists have run another kind of experiment: stick your hand in freezing water, and you can endure the pain longer if you let out a well-timed “F**k!” Turns out profanity lowers stress and raises pain tolerance. No clergy required.

So if you’re going in for surgery, the evidence is in: skip the prayer chains. A good, cathartic “F**k it” will do more for your well-being — and it won’t increase your risk of post-op complications. Amen to that. You reach for a rosary, but I reach for a hammer.

Go forth and drop the F-bomb, for it is therapeutic.

[_Robert_]

Prayer effectivity is a very straight-forward hypothesis to test.  And well, one would think that Mississippi and Alabama would have streets paved with gold by now.

[jakelafort]

Praying is pathetic.

Prayer is neither here nor there.

Say Fuck it if you dare.

I don’t care.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg,

“Fuck it” is, like fucking prayer, a fucking placebo, since “fuck it” wouldn’t stop the fucking frostbite resulting from extended fucking soaking of your fucking hand in fucking cold water!

That’s the fucking evidence-fucking-based findings of the Winter-Fucking-Semester fucking researchers at the Fucking Uni-Fucking-Versity of Fucking New-Fucking-York! Fuck it and Fuggetaboutit!

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers,

I say all this to take the edge off of the obvious and not so obvious facts about the horror that happened in Minneapolis, Minnesota:

Magic words, whether thoughts or prayers, said to anyone, whether “Gods” or humans, whether singular, intercessionally, or in prayer circles, cannot predict how the worst human beings will act, cannot change the past, and cannot bring the dead back to life.

Magic words in law books cannot embue inanimate objects with life, consciousness, volition, and responsibility, nor can they stop those inanimate objects from existing or falling into the hands of the worst human beings.

Not using the proper name of the perpetrator in news reports would have denied him the “blaze of glory” fame he wanted and inspiration for copycats. News media dropped the ball on their usual agreed-upon standards here. And, yeah, “him” and “he” are as good as any other words, since he regretted his transition and he is dead anyway.

Judging from the words he etched on his weapons, he wasn’t exclusively Anti-Christian or Anti-Catholic, but Antisemitic, Anti-Black, Anti-Ukrainian, Anti-Trump, and just Nihilistic Misanthropic all around.

And finally, sometimes words just fail…

• This reply was modified 8 months ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Correcting an erroroneously phrased statement

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

All this fucking swearing!! Well, I just don’t c**e!

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