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Originally Posted by transplant99
i feel for the kid but his reasoning is a load of bovine dung.
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comm...for_prayer_at/
Really? Someone else saying a prayer is "emotionally stressing" on you?
How? How is it that someone praying to their god causes you any distress at all?
I too live in the bible belt and I am far from "religious" as it gets. You cant go out for something to eat without a surrounding table doing a small prayer before chowing down...and not once, ever, could I possibly describe it as a feeling of stress on my part because they were doing what they believe. I am unaffected by it, so why would I care?
Just ridiculous. |
Gotta disagree. Having been in large assemblies where people are praying to something I don't believe in, it can definitely be unsettling and mildly 'distressing'. When you are expected to bow your head, close your eyes, clasp your hands in obeisance to an entity you don't believe in, it is distrssing. When it becomes a social norm to follow the rituals of a belief system you don't ascrbe to, that is distressing. When you propose a compromise such as a moment of silence in which people can choose to pray, or simply choose to reflect and you are shot down, that is distressing. Just because you are not distressed by it doesn't mean that someone else cannot be reasoably distressed in these situations.