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More like Liberal Americans. They're the only ones who make these kinds of threads. Nobody else cares.
No. All you would have to do is not do the flag pledge, for example, and there is an explosion of conservative wrath. It is an across the spectrum American thing. People always checking each other out for something they can be bothered by. Left or Right, it has become an obsession in the past thirty years.
You are eating at your favorite local restaurant. A couple walks in. The waiter brings their first course, and instead of dishing up, bow their heads and quietly say a brief prayer thanking God for their food. Then they begin to eat like nothing happened.
How do you think people would react to this in your country?
Even in the supposedly uber-religious USA, this kind of thing is uncommon.
We do this all the time and no one has ever said anything about it.
If they did say something about it we would tell them to mind their own table, meal and business because what happens at our table between us and God does not concern nor involve them.
We do this all the time and no one has ever said anything about it.
If they did say something about it we would tell them to mind their own table, meal and business because what happens at our table between us and God does not concern nor involve them.
That's precisely what I would do. Why would anyone care? It's simply someone's religious or even ethnic tradition (see the Irish blessing below) and doesn't even affect anyone else (unless of course, someone's thanksgiving blessing involves yelling "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!!!!" or something like that that's disruptive to a person's meal), so why would this affect anyone? Unless someone asked out of curiosity because they weren't familiar with it, that would be weird for a stranger to make an issue out of it. It would be just like someone who said a blessing watching at the table next to them, and if the patrons didn't ask a blessing before eating, walking up to them and demanding to know why they haven't said an appropriate blessing.
Of course, I'm in the southeast US, so it's a pretty common sight here (even to the point of giving diners a discount, which I'm not sure I agree with- because it's commercializing a personal, religious tradition):
And I have to call BS on the people saying liberals would start an issue with this. When visiting San Francisco, which is considered one of the most liberal places in the US, along with visiting other liberal hot spots, I've said blessings, and it hasn't ever really attracted attention from other strangers at nearby tables. If a liberal, or a conservative, or some variation or a person with some radically different political orientation, made an issue of this, it would be because they are a busy body, which has nothing to do with political views.
As far as restaurants go I've only ever seen people saying Grace a couple of times.
Once was a family sharing the same table as us on a cruise out of Galveston- the family didn't utter another word throughout the entire meal and then didn't turn up for the subsequent three nights!
The other time was a British family of Asian origin who were sitting at the next table to us at a restaurant in France.
I'd been chatting to the dad who was a dead ringer for one of my best friends.
As far as saying Grace that was entirely up to them, and it didn't worry us in the slightest, as would be the case for most Brits.
You are eating at your favorite local restaurant. A couple walks in. The waiter brings their first course, and instead of dishing up, bow their heads and quietly say a brief prayer thanking God for their food. Then they begin to eat like nothing happened.
How do you think people would react to this in your country?
Even in the supposedly uber-religious USA, this kind of thing is uncommon.
I have never seen it in Canada, I have seen it in the US. Thought..hmm OK.
I guess it sort of bothered me because they were quite obvious about it. The whole wearing of religion on your sleeve.
well liberals are usually more preoccupied with what others are doing or thinking for that matter
If that were true then they would have equal marriage everywhere. It's the conservative population for the most part, who are sticking their noses into other peoples business.
I saw that happen in a German McDonalds once. It was a mother with a girl who was about 8 years old.
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It's simply someone's religious or even ethnic tradition (see the Irish blessing below) and doesn't even affect anyone else (unless of course, someone's thanksgiving blessing involves yelling "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!!!!" or something like that that's disruptive to a person's meal), so why would this affect anyone? Unless someone asked out of curiosity because they weren't familiar with it, that would be weird for a stranger to make an issue out of it. It would be just like someone who said a blessing watching at the table next to them, and if the patrons didn't ask a blessing before eating, walking up to them and demanding to know why they haven't said an appropriate blessing. 
