(August 3, 2012 at 5:35 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Theologically, sin is a form of cancer.
Prayer cures that.
Besides, if there were no correlation between prayer and health, you would have to think of another reason why religious people live longer.
National average life expectancy for :-
USA (78% Christian) - 78.2 years
Japan (84% Shinto/Buddhist) - 82.6 years
All figures from Wiki.
Regards
Grimesy
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Edward Gibbon