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Originally posted by bluz4
I would have to agree with OP, seriously. I think the asking people to pray at random events is getting a little offensive. My friend told me that a month ago before her exercise workshop began, the instructor asked everyone to hold her hands and say a prayer to the Heavenly Father. Now my friend is Catholic, but she said that she was offended by the prayer b/c she knew that not everyone in the class was Christian -- one woman is Jewish, another is Buddhist. She said she felt put off by it.
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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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