(January 6, 2015 at 3:25 pm)dyresand Wrote: Anyways let them pray i mean... why bother saying it doesn't work.
Outside of a debate kind of conversation, one where trading ideas is the point, I never tell anyone their prayers are empty or their faith is in a make-believe god. Should it come up in other conversations all I will say is that I don't pray and put little value on faith.
In this particular case those praying are likely to make a bit of a show about it, stopping right in the middle of the sidewalk or while sitting in a restaurant, which puts me in a position of trying to dissuade them or obviously not taking part of the ritual once it has begun. It may just be me, but is seems seriously dishonest for a non-believer to bow one's head in prayer.
