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Atheist Grace Before Meals
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RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals
(March 29, 2013 at 1:45 pm)Quid Wrote: Do any of you other atheists do this?

In my house, my wife and I seldom said grace before meals. It wasn't until I came out as atheist that she started thinking about all the spiritual stuff lacking in our lives. So, our compromise is at each dinner, we each (including our daughters) say at least one thing we're thankful for. There's no real prayer component to it. No one is explicitly thanking God or in any other way invoking his name.

That being said, I do rather like the idea of getting my girls to think about things that they are thankful for, and to realize how that fits into their lives.
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Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Quid - March 29, 2013 at 1:45 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Rev. Rye - March 29, 2013 at 1:57 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Nine - March 29, 2013 at 2:15 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Rev. Rye - March 29, 2013 at 2:24 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Nine - March 29, 2013 at 3:56 pm
Re: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by NoraBrimstone - March 29, 2013 at 4:06 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Anomalocaris - March 29, 2013 at 4:26 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Neo-Scholastic - March 30, 2013 at 2:18 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Zack - June 9, 2014 at 3:15 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Fidel_Castronaut - June 9, 2014 at 5:42 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Losty - June 9, 2014 at 6:51 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Fidel_Castronaut - June 9, 2014 at 8:11 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by ThePinsir - June 9, 2014 at 8:48 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Losty - June 9, 2014 at 8:50 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by RobbyPants - June 9, 2014 at 11:33 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Minimalist - June 9, 2014 at 11:48 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by zebo-the-fat - June 9, 2014 at 2:26 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by vodkafan - June 9, 2014 at 2:29 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Strongbad - June 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by JesusHChrist - June 9, 2014 at 8:09 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Jackalope - June 9, 2014 at 8:30 pm
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Holden Caulfield - June 10, 2014 at 11:49 am
RE: Atheist Grace Before Meals - by Minimalist - June 10, 2014 at 12:13 pm

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