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Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?
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RE: Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?
December 4, 2015 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 10:32 am by vorlon13.)
Could Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Lindsey Graham, or Paul Ryan pass even the gentlest, easiest, fluffiest test of religious fealty and piety ?
Why doesn't their pandering PO the christers that actually are sincere ?? The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be. RE: Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?
December 4, 2015 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 10:50 am by Catholic_Lady.)
Of course, people have the right to say whatever they want, but I do think it's rude to tell people to "get off their asses and do something instead of praying." This assumes that just because someone prays it means they don't do anything else or are not willing to do anything else. It's a false dichotomy. You can pray, and you can do other things, too. You can even do them at the same time.
I've seen the phrase "f*ck your prayers" be thrown around a bit the past 2 days. A lot of the people who were trapped in that building while the shooting was going on, started calling family members and friends, asking for prayers because they thought they were going to die. Imagine if that phrase had been muttered to them? "F*ck your prayers." Personally I don't care if you're Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, or whatever. If you pray for me during a difficult time, I'll be thankful that you care enough to be thinking about me. Whether or not a politician is being genuine or political when *they* talk about praying for someone, though, is another matter. But generally speaking I don't see any problem at all with a person keeping another in their thoughts and prayers.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
There's no need to be rude about it, that I agree with. But I don't think saying "prayers are not enough" is offensive at all. I think every theist I know personally would agree that most times prayers are not enough. A lot of times with big things, people think praying is all they can do and it's not. There are small things everyone can do to help.
RE: Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?
December 4, 2015 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 11:26 am by Anomalocaris.)
(December 4, 2015 at 2:34 am)Aroura Wrote: So after the shooting at a college in October here in Oregon, President Obama said “Our thoughts and prayers are not enough.”. Of course I've seen that sentiment a thousand times on this forum or with other atheists on twitter or facebook, but the Christian President saying it seems to have loosed the tongues of more people. Being a victim is a fashionable thing now from what I can gather so I suppose people who pray just want to join in on it. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason. RE: Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?
December 4, 2015 at 11:43 am
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 11:44 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(December 4, 2015 at 10:59 am)Losty Wrote: There's no need to be rude about it, that I agree with. But I don't think saying "prayers are not enough" is offensive at all. I think every theist I know personally would agree that most times prayers are not enough. A lot of times with big things, people think praying is all they can do and it's not. There are small things everyone can do to help. Very true. And like you said, I don't think it's extremely common for Christians to think all they need to do is pray, and nothing more. That's not really the general rule within Christianity, to just pray and not do anything else.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
Man I love that newspaper cover though.
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December 4, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: December 4, 2015 at 12:12 pm by Reforged.
Edit Reason: I'm groggy and made a spelling mistake or two. Sue me.
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Its shaming people who think their *thoughts* actually have a physical impact on the world and they don't need to do anything more.
If you legitimately want to help someone; help someone. People who demonstrably have the power to help but basically say "I've thought about it. That makes me a good person." should be openly mocked. This is not a sincere response to a genuine problem.
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