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I believe, from what I have gathered from the athiests collective wisdom in these parts, offering a prayer for them is the ultimate threat. Something a terrorist should keep in his tool kit.
Once again you prove that you only read what you want to read and ignore what atheists actually post. Maybe it is you that needs words like threat, rude, disrespect or terrorist explsined to you or maybe you just prefer to live in your own World of make believe (I am not referring to your belief in a God or in your faith in this)
I believe, from what I have gathered from the athiests collective wisdom in these parts, offering a prayer for them is the ultimate threat. Something a terrorist should keep in his tool kit.
It is usually impertinent in my view. But personally it doesn't perturb me. To whatever extent it perturbs many atheists who post here, it probably has to do with their abreaction to the constant stream of micro-aggressions against people of different or no faith, by persons of the dominant faith in any one locale.
As an evangelical Christian, my take on it was, I don't see why anyone would not want me to pray for them, but I don't have a need to proclaim that I'm praying for them to begin with. I took the "pray in secret" think seriously.
Finally, I don't think anyone has risen to the level of portraying prayer as some sort of "ultimate" threat. They simply don't like it. It's an invasion of privacy and meddling and often condescending. That is the message being conveyed. But existential threat? Hardly.
I believe, from what I have gathered from the athiests collective wisdom in these parts, offering a prayer for them is the ultimate threat. Something a terrorist should keep in his tool kit.
Obviously you haven't absorbed our collective wisdom or you are simply incapable of a degree of nuance in our posts.
Because I am facing a serious medical issue, I posted something online on a local forum (not CD) for information from locals about the issue. I had a flood of responses, and quite a few people said they are praying for me. Didn't bother me a bit for a very simple reason (although one that is apparently too complex for you to understand): they don't know I'm an atheist because my post had nothing to do with religion. I didn't ask them not to pray for me. So their intent was positive and in no way disrespected my personal wishes...which they don't know. That's a helluva lot different from asking a person to not pray for me and having that person do it anyways just for spite. Honestly, you need to think through things more carefully.
Once again you prove that you only read what you want to read and ignore what atheists actually post. Maybe it is you that needs words like threat, rude, disrespect or terrorist explsined to you or maybe you just prefer to live in your own World of make believe (I am not referring to your belief in a God or in your faith in this)
It is usually impertinent in my view. But personally it doesn't perturb me. To whatever extent it perturbs many atheists who post here, it probably has to do with their abreaction to the constant stream of micro-aggressions against people of different or no faith, by persons of the dominant faith in any one locale.
As an evangelical Christian, my take on it was, I don't see why anyone would not want me to pray for them, but I don't have a need to proclaim that I'm praying for them to begin with. I took the "pray in secret" think seriously.
Finally, I don't think anyone has risen to the level of portraying prayer as some sort of "ultimate" threat. They simply don't like it. It's an invasion of privacy and meddling and often condescending. That is the message being conveyed. But existential threat? Hardly.
And she demands all religious views and posters be respected. Perhaps she does not understand that disrespectful posters do not automatically deserve respect.
It is usually impertinent in my view. But personally it doesn't perturb me. To whatever extent it perturbs many atheists who post here, it probably has to do with their abreaction to the constant stream of micro-aggressions against people of different or no faith, by persons of the dominant faith in any one locale.
As an evangelical Christian, my take on it was, I don't see why anyone would not want me to pray for them, but I don't have a need to proclaim that I'm praying for them to begin with. I took the "pray in secret" think seriously.
Finally, I don't think anyone has risen to the level of portraying prayer as some sort of "ultimate" threat. They simply don't like it. It's an invasion of privacy and meddling and often condescending. That is the message being conveyed. But existential threat? Hardly.
I never thought much about atheists before my exposure to this forum. I realize now how tough it must be to be assailed with prayers and blessings and good will and what not from folks around. Gives a new meaning to snowflakes. What grade would this be compared to say being stopped to be searched because you are black and moving? Women-handling such as Trump's favorite move ? Muslim hate? Hindu dot-buster hate?
I never thought much about atheists before my exposure to this forum. I realize now how tough it must be to be assailed with prayers and blessings and good will and what not from folks around. Gives a new meaning to snowflakes. What grade would this be compared to say being stopped to be searched because you are black and moving? Women-handling such as Trump's favorite move ? Muslim hate? Hindu dot-buster hate?
You don't think much about atheists while you're in this forum.
I never thought much about atheists before my exposure to this forum. I realize now how tough it must be to be assailed with prayers and blessings and good will and what not from folks around. Gives a new meaning to snowflakes. What grade would this be compared to say being stopped to be searched because you are black and moving? Women-handling such as Trump's favorite move ? Muslim hate? Hindu dot-buster hate?
As I said you live in a made up World that is only in your mind. Hate is your projection.
The difference between being black while moving and atheists feeling assulted by prayers is the former is real and may end up in a fatal result and the other is not actually real. For a person wholikes ti derail topics into concern about racism it is disappointing that you are minimizing or mocking of racism.
I never thought much about atheists before my exposure to this forum. I realize now how tough it must be to be assailed with prayers and blessings and good will and what not from folks around. Gives a new meaning to snowflakes. What grade would this be compared to say being stopped to be searched because you are black and moving? Women-handling such as Trump's favorite move ? Muslim hate? Hindu dot-buster hate?
Ah, the classic "X is worse than Y, so why should anyone complain about Y?" inanity...
It also has squat to do with your absurd claim that atheists consider prayer om the behalf to be the 'ultimate threat'.
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