Your opinion on "Prayer Shaming"?

[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.