You also missed my point about taking a scientific approach to something like ebola. Gas masks are utterly irrelevant and pointeless. We know how the virus is spread and we know that if caught reasonably early it is easy to kill. Even if your entire neighborhood consists of people with ebola you and your children are safe as long as you don't swap bodily fluids. I don't know about you, I can't remember the last time I swapped bodily fluids with my neighbors. So, yeah, others can pray --which is utter nonsense-- I'll stick with scientific knowlege --which is not.

Here's the difference with science: If tomorrow someone offered true evidence that ebola is now airborne and prayer kills it, I could not imagine a single scientist who, when presented with the evidence, would not accept these findings to have a high degree of probability of being true.

This is so ridiculous I had to separate it just to say:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING! SURELY YOU MUST BE BECAUSE NO INTELLIGENT EDUCATED PERSON COULD POSSIBLY HOLD THIS RIDICULOUS BELIEF.

The fact that we have people on this planet in 2014 who can actually believe something like this is the root of many of our problems.

You are equating praying to medical treatement. That is utter nonsense on the face of it, regardless of whether or not an established and effective treatement course exists for an ailment. I'm sorry, it's just plain stupid. Would you pray to Thor, Apollo, the Tooth Fairy, Zeus? Why not? So, pray tell, why does your brain magically stop working when your favorite god is invoked?