(November 16, 2015 at 9:22 am)SofaKingHigh Wrote: Not wanting to get in an argument, but it seems to be a little bit petty to be getting so het up over being asked to pray, given the situation.
People are religious, quite what you expect I'm not sure.
Exactly. Most of them don't even mean it literally anyway. In this case it's nothing but an expression of empathy. It's those petty differences that if we can overcome we can be more united, not pointlessly divided.
I guess I see why it could be irritating, but to me it seems like missing the bigger picture. It's just an expression. It was drilled into the language and the minds through years.