MPs demand that advertisements be allowed to say that prayer

[Lozzer]

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2012/03/26 ... yer-works/

Retards

[Drewish]

A cross-party group of three MPs want a ban overturned on the claim that prayers to God can work.

And they’ve written to the Advertising Standards Authority to say if the ban is not over-turned they will raise the issue in Parliament.

[FBM]

Wait. Are those people Americans or wot? You people are supposed to be smarter than us.

[Clinton Huxley]

The letter the three twerps have written is one long facepalm......

[Clinton Huxley]

Prayer healed Gary Streeter's (MP for South Lunacy) hand! An anecdote. Excellent. I presume to create a level playing field, pharma companies will be able to claim efficacy for their products purely on anecdotal evidence...

[Clinton Huxley]

The MPs have asked for the ASAs proof that prayer doesn't work. The ASA should respond that they regularly pray that they don't receive stupid letters from MPs.

[klr]

The MPs have asked for the ASAs proof that prayer doesn't work. The ASA should respond that they regularly pray that they don't receive stupid letters from MPs.

... or that they pray for pay rises, or England to win the World Cup.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Commented. "Apalled in the US."

[Bella Fortuna]

Prayer healed Gary Streeter's (MP for South Lunacy) hand! An anecdote. Excellent. I presume to create a level playing field, pharma companies will be able to claim efficacy for their products purely on anecdotal evidence...

If prayer is so powerful, then these loons can pray candidates into office instead of actually voting.

[Clinton Huxley]

If any of these jokers was my MP my first thought would be, "Have you not got enough work to do?"

[Brian Peacock]

I think the MPs should have their day in Parliament. What better way to highlight the essential bollocks of the claim. If the ban is over-turned then Ratz should run a series of ads saying that the membership will engage in bespoke prayer for an appropriate financial consideration. How is anybody ever going to distinguish between outcomes that result from prayer and those that do not?

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

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[Svartalf]

Wait. Are those people Americans or wot? You people are supposed to be smarter than us.

Where do you think merca got its first bunches of ultrareligious cretins from?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Wait. Are those people Americans or wot? You people are supposed to be smarter than us.

Where do you think merca got its first bunches of ultrareligious cretins from?

Siberia.

[Svartalf]

'cause the mayflower pilgrims stumbled onto a massive theocracy that snu snu'd'em to death in honor of the gods.