From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 01:58:33 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> 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.
>
Hey, it's much more likely to do some good than the other! :-)
- samantha
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