The journalist Ambrose Bierce once defined praying as asking “that
the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner
confessedly unworthy”.
Whatever you make of that, according to one poll, Americans as a
whole today have more faith in prayer than that definition would
indicate Bierce had. We are a prayerful people—well, that is, about
three quarters of us believe that prayer has the power to actually help
heal an injury or illness (even if most people who say that to pollsters
don’t really spend much time praying themselves).
People who were least likely to affirm that this is the case, the poll
reported, were men, Democrats, white, under 35, making more than $50 000
a year, and those with college degrees. Lest you be encouraged by the
faith of the nation, I should tell you that most Americans also believe
that it doesn’t matter who you pray to. Continue at Mark Dever
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