Not mine. I have had several relatives pass away from diseases even though my family (including my grandmother who is a minister) prayed for them every day. This includes a cousin who died of cancer before she could graduate high school. I guess they just weren't praying hard enough.

Of course prayer doesn't work. That's why we invented modern medicine.
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . Praying for the sick makes them feel even worse PRAYING for hospital patients can make their illnesses worse and lead to significant post-operative complications, new research has found. The biggest study into the relationship between prayer and healing found that, on the whole, prayers offered by strangers had no effect on patients' recovery. But heart surgery patients who knew people were praying for them ended up with a higher rate of post-operative complications, such as abnormal heart rhythms. Researchers suggested this was Rating: 5