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Originally posted by PsychTau
Yes, but would she have been just as put off if the instructor just said "Please pray"? That would leave the word pray open to your personal interpretation on WHO you actually pray to....Jewish people pray, do Buddhists do something similar (I actually don't know)? I guess it depends on the definition of the word "pray". It also depends on how the request is phrased...
Personally, I don't let it get to me. There are bigger things to worry about than whether or not a request to pray is someone forcing their religion into a situation where it doesn't belong. I can ignore a request like that. (And if they were telling me "You have to pray before we can do such-and-such" then I would be like "Who the hell gave you the power to tell me what to do??"
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I'm not sure how the instructor phrased it. I think I personally would rather someone say: "Can we take a moment of silence?" Because some people don't pray; some people don't acknowledge a God. I too don't think though that it's a big deal. I'm just noticing that more and more people around me seem to be pushing the prayer, God, Bible thing around. And while in all honesty, that is a harmless thing... it still seems to disregard others' beliefs and individual values... you know?