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Reply to "Football, Prayers, and the First Amendment"

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

Well there seems to be a difference of opinion about whether or not praying before a football game is illegal. I stand there and wait for it to end too. Everybody stands there and waits for it to end. They shouldn't have to. Let's flip this, what's so offensive about being ask to do it in silence? We have friends that pray before eating. We sit there until they're finished, others in the restaurant go about their business. Should they stand up, pray out loud, and expect everyone in the entire restaurant to stop talking, eating, working and listen to them pray? And if they didn't stop you know as well as I do it would be-"did you SEE those people keep eating, talking, laughing, working while so and so was praying?! How rude and disrespectful can people be? What is this world coming to"!

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Any question I ask you or any opinion I give is respectively given or ask, please know that. Never would I put you down for how you feel or believe because that is your right.

 

I’m actually surprised that you would sit quietly thru a prayer with friends before a meal. If my family or friends pray while I’m in attendance, I quietly walk away before the prayer because I feel I would be a hypocrite to sit thru something that makes me uncomfortable & because I don’t believe prayers are answered.

Most of the time, I feel like people pray before a meal because it’s habit. It doesn’t come from the heart, it’s just something they do.

 

As far as your question of should an entire restaurant stop talking, eating, working while someone is praying is sort of out there. A prayer at another table is for those seated at the table, not the entire restaurant. I’ve seen waitresses & waiters headed to a table with drinks or whatever & if the people at that table is praying, they will stop & respectfully wait until the prayer is over.

 

Most people are not going to stop what they are doing if they see someone at another table praying. It’s not rude or disrespectful if the prayer is being said at someone else’s table. I don’t think anyone would expect the whole restaurant to stop while a prayer is being said.

 


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