Article March 12, 1979 Issue

Potent prayer for humanity

STEPHEN T. CARLSON

Scientific prayer is the mightiest, most precise weapon we can use to topple human suffering and injustice. At its heart is spiritual knowing—knowing what man really is, where he actually resides, what governs him. This is far from an ivory-tower approach to dealing with the world's problems. It's wholly realistic.

Mortal thinking would belittle prayer by labeling it a futile exercise, a hopeless method of getting free from the tangled web of human discord. Such thinking would inflate its own bogus portrayal of reality—selfishness here, hatred there, injustice center stage.

If we believe that this is reality, that we and our fellow beings are destructible mortals, endlessly victimized by material systems and circumstances, this won't do anything for us or them. How much better to realize the truth of God's creation and so help bring the truth into human view!

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