RE: I'll pray for you
October 20, 2014 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2014 at 11:38 am by Cyberman.)
It depends on the context of the conversation. Most of the time, people really do mean well with their offers of prayer. It can be a shorthand, a placeholder, for saying something nominally supportive when there's really nothing to say. Those times I do take the sentiment in the spirit it's intended. Or I would, if I were to get people doing that, which as I say, nobody who knows me attempts to do.
Then there's the attempt to sweep your problems under the rug and get in a cheap proselytising jab, which is in my experience less common and equally less welcome. They're the ones that try to sell the empty box labelled "Your problems are a test from God and it makes me feel better to tell you about it".
Lastly and definitely least are the ones meant as a scorched-earth parting shot. The "I can't answer what you just said so I'm going to rage quit while telling you how superior I am". Basically, a quick and cheap "fuck you".
Then there's the attempt to sweep your problems under the rug and get in a cheap proselytising jab, which is in my experience less common and equally less welcome. They're the ones that try to sell the empty box labelled "Your problems are a test from God and it makes me feel better to tell you about it".
Lastly and definitely least are the ones meant as a scorched-earth parting shot. The "I can't answer what you just said so I'm going to rage quit while telling you how superior I am". Basically, a quick and cheap "fuck you".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
