Placebos and Faith

by Mike James

You have probably heard of the placebo effect. The “placebo effect” has to do with a patient taking a pill that has no medical properties, yet in many cases, taking that pill leads to an improvement for a physical or mental issue. You usually hear of this effect taking place without the patient’s knowledge of whether the pill had medicine or not.

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Why the Decrease in the Percentage of Christians in the US?

by Mike James

In the past I have written a couple of blogs on the decreasing impact of religion and Christianity in the Western world and some other places. This trend has been ongoing since the 1950s in the United States (US) and is even more dramatic in some predominantly Christian nations in other parts of the world. Back in the 1950s, over 90 percent of the US population claimed to be Christian, with those numbers down to over 60-some percent claiming Christianity now.

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