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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2013, 05:31:41 PM »
I agree. I have heard people pray quietly. Even though I'm not with them I stop talking and bow my own head until they are done praying. I guess I'm a intolerant fundie rethug or something.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2013, 06:08:40 PM »
How about you ignore them you monstrosity of a human being.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2013, 06:19:39 PM »
I have never encountered a Christian praying loudly in a public restaurant.

Maybe they were reading from the Amplified Bible:


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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2013, 01:15:55 PM »
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Muslims block the streets and sidewalks to pray, the US government has spent millions building them foot baths and their own prayer rooms at airports.....why don't the DUmmies bitch about that......are they afraid they might lose their heads or something.

...or fly planes into buildings or bomb embassies or shoot up a bunch of troops on an army installation...
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2013, 01:47:58 PM »
Just how loud were they praying? It's one thing if they're shouting, it's another thing when they're just normally talking, or even whispering.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #30 on: July 13, 2013, 01:50:09 PM »
Muslims block the streets and sidewalks to pray, the US government has spent millions building them foot baths and their own prayer rooms at airports.....why don't the DUmmies bitch about that......are they afraid they might lose their heads or something.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #31 on: July 13, 2013, 02:28:57 PM »
I hate when people pray over their foodstamps. I don't have to hate it very often though.
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2013, 02:47:11 PM »
Something tells me that if we protest a bunch of Muzzies who want to have those hideous calls to prayer the DUmbasses would be calling us racists.
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2013, 03:14:22 PM »
Something tells me that if we protest a bunch of Muzzies who want to have those hideous calls to prayer the DUmbasses would be calling us racists.

You know they would. They're lying, cowardly, hypocritical ****s who will take any position, regardless of how contradictory, to push their own political goals. And those goals almost always have to do solely with their own licentiousness and greed, no matter how noble they try to frame them.
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2013, 07:03:50 PM »
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I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
Sitting in Starbucks, this couple sits down next toe with their bagel and coffee and hold hands across the table and start praying quite loudly to their God for their fine mid morning snack. Ugh!!

I get it. You love your God. But supposedly he can hear your silent prayers too. Don't under estimate the magical powers of your God.

And if you were trying to "bear witness" to your faith...it had opposite of the intended effect.

Yours truly, non religious agnostic just trying to enjoy his coffee and newspaper in peace.

Personally I do not care one way or the other dummie. I hate people who think they are so god awful important they have to talk on their cell phones in the grocery store line but I don't go on a board and bitch about it.

Now as for praying in public, I follow the bible on that. Don't know which passage it was now... it said to pray to God in private. To publicly display your... whatever the term was in that passage, can't remember... was not favorable in God's eye.

My 2 cents now dummy... if that is the only thing wrong in your world then if I was you I'd be thankful. 
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2013, 07:15:03 PM »
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33. Sorry..That's not the point. The point is: A lot of people are sick and tired of extreme Christens

..constantly trying to force their views on life into our laws and bedroom and marriage and just about everything else.

We-are-sick-of-it. Fed up. SO...it's NOT really because they prayed at a coffee house...It's because these same people will probably cause some Woman to have a back-ally abortion.

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Something tells me that if we protest a bunch of Muzzies who want to have those hideous calls to prayer the DUmbasses would be calling us racists.

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323. Is there a difference between an offering of thanks for the meal and actual prayer, or communion, with whatever deity/belief system one has chosen? Reading about the Sermon on the Mount, thanks was given for the bread/fish.
 
If so, then the Matthew reference that so many get all quote-y over, does not apply to the meal reference but does to the the communion one.
 
The hypocrites mentioned in the Matthew reference are doing their 'praying' in an ostentatious manner, and that is what is being enjoined against.
 
Interestingly, Congress begins sessions with a prayer. I recall there being one from time to time at inauguration ceremonies. Perhaps a petition/email/letter writing campaign should begin forthwith.
 
But on the other hand, what does it hurt?

No one ever mentions the line about not hiding your light under a bushel, but put it on a stand so that all can see. Is it possible that this 'light' can be one's faith/belief? That's in Matthew also, but it doesn't get all quoted up in this kind of thread.
 
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2013, 07:30:08 PM »
Personally I do not care one way or the other dummie. I hate people who think they are so god awful important they have to talk on their cell phones in the grocery store line but I don't go on a board and bitch about it.

Now as for praying in public, I follow the bible on that. Don't know which passage it was now... it said to pray to God in private. To publicly display your... whatever the term was in that passage, can't remember... was not favorable in God's eye.

My 2 cents now dummy... if that is the only thing wrong in your world then if I was you I'd be thankful. 

God doesn't put prohibitions on public prayer. He does, however, look down on it when it is done for the purposes of drawing attention to one's self in a showy display of piety. I point out that Jesus prayed in public several times in order to glorify God. He prayed aloud at the tomb of Lazarus:

And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."

John 11:41b-42.
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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #37 on: July 13, 2013, 07:39:45 PM »
God doesn't put prohibitions on public prayer. He does, however, look down on it when it is done for the purposes of drawing attention to one's self in a showy display of piety.

That was what I was talking about.  

Just to be clear there FlaGator I didn't mean that God meant that you couldn't pray in public. If that was true then there would be no funerals, Sunday services, etc.   :cheersmate: :cheersmate:


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I point out that Jesus prayed in public several times in order to glorify God. He prayed aloud at the tomb of Lazarus:

And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me."

John 11:41b-42.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #38 on: July 13, 2013, 08:33:43 PM »
God doesn't put prohibitions on public prayer. He does, however, look down on it when it is done for the purposes of drawing attention to one's self in a showy display of piety.

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Re: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public
« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2013, 11:43:15 AM »
Something tells me that if we protest a bunch of Muzzies who want to have those hideous calls to prayer the DUmbasses would be calling us racists.

Yes, of course.
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