I am curious to know if you would be offended, if at church on Sunday your Pastor got up and said a prayer for Church Mice?
I mean he prayed that the mice be strengthened and given the ability to carry out their mousey duties and to eventually render the Church unusable, so that the Parisheners would finally have to pony up the dough to pay for a new Church.
ok I am kidding here is the original post but hey if you are just now reading this thread there have been many twists and turns and I no longer say a prayer over the deceased and yes largely due to many of the points made in this thread. Also NO i would not be offended if anyone of any belief Satanist, TO Catholic said prayers or whipered chants or whatever in my ear that said it was and is an interesting thread but please read about 5-10 of the current posts prior to posting
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ORIGNAL POST
I am curious to know if you would be offended, after death if someone were to say a prayer over you.
I would really like to hear from as many Agnostic or Atheist as possible.
I recently began saying a prayer over anyone that dies in my presence. Many times I do not know if the person had a religious preference or not. I am curious to know if people would be offended if they knew someone was going to pray over them when they die.
here is the prayer
Dear Lord not our will but yours. Into thine hands we commend the spirit of this peaceful child of God. Prepare a place for him/her Now in Your Heavenly Kingdom![/Quote]
I don't really have an answer I go through my subscribed threads and thin them out occassionally and this is one I just can't bare to delete, part of it is I started it with a good feeling and it turned into such a bad feeling that I can't let it go down that way.
I hope I didn't offend. I certainly wasn't trying to. Your question about holiday plans just seemed more appropriate for a separate thread. As far as prayer is concerned, I certainly would not be offended by prayer that was meant innocently. There are, however, people who are seemingly incapable of respecting beliefs that are divergent from their own, and therefore must blatantly disregard and mock these beliefs. That offends me.
I don't really have an answer I go through my subscribed threads and thin them out occassionally and this is one I just can't bare to delete, part of it is I started it with a good feeling and it turned into such a bad feeling that I can't let it go down that way.
I hope I didn't offend. I certainly wasn't trying to. Your question about holiday plans just seemed more appropriate for a separate thread. As far as prayer is concerned, I certainly would not be offended by prayer that was meant innocently. There are, however, people who are seemingly incapable of respecting beliefs that are divergent from their own, and therefore must blatantly disregard and mock these beliefs. That offends me.
No offense, I hope i didn't sound defensive, I guess I just decided that starting a new thread less is personal I just like this thread and I like the people that respond to it.
I hope I didn't offend. I certainly wasn't trying to. Your question about holiday plans just seemed more appropriate for a separate thread. As far as prayer is concerned, I certainly would not be offended by prayer that was meant innocently. There are, however, people who are seemingly incapable of respecting beliefs that are divergent from their own, and therefore must blatantly disregard and mock these beliefs. That offends me.
Now that is funny I am guessing you are a big Monty Python fan LOL
:rotfl: :roll :roll :roll :rotfl:
notice the pendulum effect
Haven't seen much Monty Python... but remember from the "Holy Grail" a scene depicting the Black Death with peasants pushing a cart piled with dead bodies hollering "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD. BRING OUT YOUR DEAD." Someone comes out of a hut carrying a guy hanging over his shoulder. The guy hanging over the shoulder is looking around with big eyes and says, "I'm not dead yet... I'm not dead yet." (You have to say it in a English accent for it to be funny)
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