RE: A prayer before dinner
August 30, 2019 at 11:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2019 at 11:31 pm by GrandizerII.)
Welcome to having friends. Life is full of the need for compromises like that if you wish to have a social life.
Personally, this would bug me and I would construe what they're doing as very inconsiderate of me as their friend (assuming they know I'm an atheist and such), in which case I'd probably want to at least talk about this with them eventually. There are other ways/times they can pray without doing so in your presence, and I don't know of any Christian who is bound by specific times to pray. Maybe pray somewhere else silently/privately right before they come to the table to eat? It comes off as showy and imposing otherwise.
Personally, this would bug me and I would construe what they're doing as very inconsiderate of me as their friend (assuming they know I'm an atheist and such), in which case I'd probably want to at least talk about this with them eventually. There are other ways/times they can pray without doing so in your presence, and I don't know of any Christian who is bound by specific times to pray. Maybe pray somewhere else silently/privately right before they come to the table to eat? It comes off as showy and imposing otherwise.
