RE: A prayer before dinner
August 31, 2019 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2019 at 6:21 pm by GrandizerII.)
(August 31, 2019 at 11:31 am)Aegon Wrote: Who cares? it's a grand total of 30 seconds (at most) of your life, waiting for your friends to do something that is very important to them.
I swear, the things people choose to get hung up on...
Hence why I make sure to have friends who are considerate of what I stand for (if they have to pray, they can easily do so somewhere privately, there's no Christian doctrine/dogma dictating that they have to pray in a public secular setting in front of atheist friends ... or they can ask me first if I'm ok with them praying in front of me). And thankfully, my relatives are not so showy (oops, I mean ... religious) they feel they need to pray at the table when I'm around.
Also, I would bet a $1000 dollars if there were people of other faiths praying in front of them to other gods, they'd feel disrespected as well. Imagine a random friend praying to Satan in front of them ...
Of course, if we're talking church or some other setting where prayer is expected, that is different and I would not feel any disrespect at all. Depends on context.
