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BACK in 2007 it was reported that a French nun was “miraculously” cured of Parkinson’s disease after praying to the late Pope John Paul II
Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, 49, declared at the time:
It’s like a second birth. I feel like I’ve discovered a new body, new limbs.

Simon-Pierre could barely move her left side, could not [...]

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A CHRISTIAN police group which believes that the power of prayer can help catch criminals has been given a £10,000 Home Office grant to fight crime.
The Christian Police Association (CPA), reports The Telegraph, was handed the one-off cash payment to help publicise its message, which includes encouraging members of the public to pray that criminals [...]

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Barry Duke on November 21st, 2009

DEVOUT Christian Tillmon Webb, who apparently weighed 550lb in March of this year, couldn’t afford medical treatment for an injured leg. So he turned instead to God for healing – and died in considerable pain after not moving from his home recliner for EIGHT MONTHS!
According to this report, Tillmon, 33, from Greenwood County, [...]

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THE Secular Coalition for America says it is “thrilled” that the House of Representatives has decided to remove language found in all three draft bills that would require private and public health care plans to cover the spiritual needs of individuals with religious objections to medical treatment.
The House this week released their version of the [...]

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JUST over 330 years ago, devout Roman Catholic villagers in Switzerland struck a deal with God that would protect them from a bloody great glacier:
If you stop the Great Aletschgletscher from engulfing our mountain hamlets of Fiesch and Fieschertal, we’ll lead exemplary lives of great holiness – and we won’t even allow our womenfolk to [...]

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DESPITE the fact that there is not one shred of credible evidence in the whole history of humankind that prayer to a supernatural entity has ever been answered, many religious nutjobs persist with this utterly pointless practice.
Which would be OK – if only innocent parties, generally children, weren’t harmed by such idiocy.
But they are – [...]

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