• The Prayer • Painting

• Since I believe that the prayers of countless religious believers would help get rid of the Covid19 to benefit those infected, it saddened me to learn that the internet cited studies denying that prayers are effective. • For example, when 300 million people died of smallpox in the 20th Century, prayers by the relatives of the deceased did not produce the outcomes they wanted. • In a report by Drake University in 2003, the same thing happened when Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Jews were asked to pray for the successful coronary surgery of 750 heart patients. • And when the required Sunday prayers in Britain decades ago failed to make the Royal Family members to live healthier and longer than the non-prayed for citizens, it explained why only 10% of the English believed in religion, as reported by Pew Research Center in a 2017 Study. • When asked by Pew if religion was an important part of their lives - 53% in America said “Yes”; Italy 58%; France 11%; Germany, Japan, Sweden, and Russia 10% each; Canada 27%; China 3%; Australia 18%; Spain 22%; South Africa 75; Brazil 72; and Israel 36%. • But even if billions don’t pray believing that prayers hardly work, I have to note that I do pray and praise the Lord, since praying is my source for self-soothing and self-comfort. • In my digitally-created abstract, I made a parody of a duck praying in the dark.

Painting:Household on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:37 W x 53 H x 1.5 D in

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