Today in Servant Leadership the preacher started off by showing a video of a woman who was crying on a park bench, speaking to "us" about how she was a non-believer and how her life was so empty because she knew that she was a bad person and begging "us" to come share what we have learned with her, and then she says "I will tell you to go away, I will tell you I do not need god, I will justify my way of life, I will make fun of you but don't stop trying to convince me." Then he goes on to talk about prayer and starts giving statistics about ONE study done in 1986 where a prayer group prayed for 396 patients undergoing heart surgery. It was a double blind study so the patients and caregivers did not know which names were being prayed for. Well they results were supposed to be staggering, like only 3 people who were prayed for required antibiotics, while 6 who were not prayed for did, so even though these 9 people make up only about four percent of the whole group (which he did not point out) He only focused on the fact that the ones who were prayed for did 75% better. He kept saying this was undeniable scientific proof. It's a good thing I'm on Prozac or I might have caused a scene! So then the preacher goes on with more statistics about how 89% of Americans pray and that out of those 89% 78% consider themselves believers He goes on to say"so there are 11% of people who pray, but believe there is nothing out there hearing them...c'mon how stupid is that" This was followed by laughter and comments of agreement from the class. The preacher then decides that we as a group are going to pray for something and see what happens so he goes down the row one by one asking for suggestions. I was about the 4th person called on and I said, "Well I'm not going to say anything, or I would be one of the stupid 11%." After this every single person called on decided that as a class we need to pray for me to find the love and peace and forgiveness of god( while they did not say my name specifically it was like "I think we should pray that people in this class who don't believe blaha bala blah...") I am now a class project.