Mid-west Humanists – An Irish Atheist Community

JERUSALEM – Dozens of rabbis and Kabbalah mystics armed with ceremonial trumpets have taken to the skies over Israel to battle the H1N1 flu virus. About 50 Jewish holy men chanted prayers and blew ritual rams’ horns known as shofars in an aircraft circling over the country in the hope of stopping the spread of the virus

Irish Times 12th August 2009 – full article here.

 Can we take this as a test?  If more people get the flu in Israel is it proof of the failure of prayer?

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