Are Gas Prices Dropping Due to Prayer?

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Quick answer: of course not! I'm not even a tiny bit religious, so I do have a bias here, but seriously, WTF? I know that some conservatives have a little trouble with cause-and-effect. So listen up, people: if A is followed by B, you cannot logically conclude that A caused B. A may simply have preceded it, and had no relation to B at all.

And prayer is probably the hardest "cause" of all to even come close to proving. After all, what if Religious Guy #1 prays for prices to drop, and Religious Guy #2 (who has a lot of Exxon-McCain-Mobil stock) prays for prices to go up? Pray for rain? Somebody's probably praying against it. And on and on. So essentially, if anything happens, somebody can claim it to be an answered prayer. Nice.

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'Pray at the Pump' activist: 'We shall overcome' high gas prices

Divine intervention, not the market, is bringing gas prices down, one campaigner says.
59-year-old Rocky Twyman of Rockville, Maryland has garnered worldwide attention after holding prayer meetings at gas stations across the United States since April as part of his "Pray at the Pump" drive. Recently, to celebrate a drop in the average price of gasoline to $3.80 a gallon. . .

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