Was basically my Thanksgiving, everything was great but....
DAMN IT please theist friends, DON'T ASK US to pray with you or bow our heads. Seriously, it is like if you had a Jewish friend and offered them ham or pulled pork. That is your thing not ours.
We are not secretly superstitious thinking something magic will happen if we do. We simply don't buy the claim that prayer works. We still have theist family and friends, but I don't think many understand how annoying it is to us and how uncomfortable it makes many. Now that is not to say other atheists cant fake it if they wish, but many simply do not like the double standard where we are expected to do it all the time when around theists if they do, no matter the occasion.
DAMN IT please theist friends, DON'T ASK US to pray with you or bow our heads. Seriously, it is like if you had a Jewish friend and offered them ham or pulled pork. That is your thing not ours.
We are not secretly superstitious thinking something magic will happen if we do. We simply don't buy the claim that prayer works. We still have theist family and friends, but I don't think many understand how annoying it is to us and how uncomfortable it makes many. Now that is not to say other atheists cant fake it if they wish, but many simply do not like the double standard where we are expected to do it all the time when around theists if they do, no matter the occasion.
