Why do athesists ask for prayers
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Anonymous
| OP is the most godless person I know. |
Anonymous
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Maybe she’s asking for YOUR benefit, to ease YOUR pain.
Because she’s kinder than you. |
Anonymous
Bull. |
Anonymous
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No one is an atheist with stage 4 cancer just like
no one is an atheist on an active battlefield. |
Anonymous
| I’m an Interfaith Hospice Minister. I’m the one they call when someone doesn’t fit into a neat spiritual path. It’s not unusual for atheists and agnostics to ask for prayer towards the end. Your role as a person of faith is not to question motive. Your only focus should be on providing peace and comfort. You don’t try to convert. You don’t preach. You simply follow their lead. I would use very spiritually inclusive, affirmative prayer. |
Anonymous
Interfaith Hospice Minister here. I’ve been with hundreds of people as they died. Many of them atheists. Your statement is simply not true. |
Anonymous
+2 Op, you are not a good person. |
Anonymous
The patient in question has likely had at least two dozen people already ask her if it is OK to pray for her. This is a way to get there faster. |
Anonymous
You don't know the OP so that's pretty ridiculous. |
Anonymous
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OP does seem remarkably cruel, though.
In any event, I just had an atheist relative die of aggressive cancer. She asked her lifelong friend, who was devoutly religious, to pray for her. It was a gift to the friend, who was heartbroken and felt helpless in the face of the tragedy. I can assure you that my relative died an atheist, and her dear friend also appreciated the opportunity to pray for her. My guess is that level of compassion is beyond OP, though. |
Anonymous
DP here. Are you the hospice minister who has posted on DCUM for a while? If so, I want to thank you for your kind, detailed and helpful posts. Your posts helped DH and I when my FIL was dying a few years ago and last year when my dad passed. You do not disappoint in this thread either. |
Anonymous
Agreed. I'm a physician who has been at many deaths as well. It's the kind of statement someone makes in a loud voice, as if you say it loud enough, it will be true. Factually, it isn't. |
Anonymous
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To the nice, experienced, kind people posting in this thread (1700 and 1729):
Where have you been? We have been needing you here. |
Anonymous
To be fair, seems like they have other things going on. |
Anonymous
| She is just covering all the basis. Besides, isn't it that religious people always offer to pray for anyone, so why question the motives. |