From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 00:11:37 MST
In the latest ish of the Aussie zine THE SKEPTIC (Autumn 2002), it's
mentioned that `American trauma nurse and Rationalist Jan Eisler told the
stunned Conference that most American health insurers now pay a benefit to
Christian Scientist practitioners who *pray* for the recovery of a policy
holder!' (pp. 9-10)
But surely technological advances can improve upon this method. The Church
of Singularity Healing Vibrations of Omega, Inc, will gladly receive
insurance payments on behalf of the many registered ill people who will be
prayed for by a computer program that repeats their name and their request
for healing thousands nay millions of time a second. The Divine Being at
the end of the cosmos--or in 2032, whichever comes first--will reach back
through time and lay soothing sacred healing forces upon these poor sick
people.
Frater Damien
[with apologies, as so often, to Arthur C. Clarke, in this case for
horribly twisting the brilliant idea in his classic tale `The Nine Billion
Names of God']
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