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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christians can pray for whomever and whatever they wish to pray for. If you don’t like it, that’s fine. Prayer is their choice.

It is the attitude of one who prays. It doesn’t influence God necessarily. They person who prays focuses their thoughts and their emotional and spiritual life through prayer and that’s how they choose to interact with aspects of the world around them.

Prayer isn’t arrogant, it’s how some people feel comfortable interacting with their fellow man and the world around them.

Telling people specifically in a religion forum that their prayers suck is arrogant. Interaction with religious people, when you have rejected God, and lecturing them on prayer reeks of arrogance.

If you don’t like prayer, and don’t like interacting with Christians, or Jews, or Muslims, all who pray, don’t interact with them. [/quote]

Prayer can be arrogant and it certainly was in the example here.  Anyone anywhere saying they don't want to be prayed for is not arrogant any more than declining any assistance is arrogant.

question:  are you saying that it's acceptable for Christians to pray for atheists who have made it clear that they don't want the prayers, but not acceptable for atheists (or anyone) to acknowledge that they don't want the prayers?

And Thanks for demonstrating just how arrogant and insensitive some people can be.

Also, please keep in mind that this is the Religion forum, not the "Religious believers only" forum. [/quote]

^ I think you're being a bit too had on the Christian lady in this instance.  She's not the belligerent believer, and she means well.  Just my opinion. [/quote]

No she doesn’t. She said she would pray for me seemingly because we disagreed in this discussion. Why that required prayer, I have no idea. It’s like she thought I needed divine intervention to help my soul or something.[/quote]

I wrote that I would pray for you.  I didn’t see us as arguing.  You had some questions about the Catholic Church, we were having a discussion, and I was leaving.  I said that I had to make dinner now, but that I would keep you in my prayers later.

It was not a hostile statement.  Exactly the opposite.   If I really look at why I wrote it, I think it was intended to soften the “I have more important stuff to do” statement that preceded it.

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DP here.  You told a guy who you knew doesn’t believe what you believed that you would pray for him, when you knew he didn’t want you to, and you reasonably would assume he wouldn’t like, and you say that isn’t hostile? [b]I think you should do some self reflection on that because it was entirely hostile and appeared intentionally so.[/b][/quote]

Well I'm a DP, and an atheist, and I didn't take it that way at all. When someone says they'll pray for me, I just say "thanks but don't waste your time."  I don't get angry about it or ascribe malicious motives to them.    OTOH, this thread is supposed to be about baptism, so maybe we could go back to that? [/quote]

What kind of response do you get to that?  
If someone told me not to waste my time on them, I would think they were depressed and feeling worthless.  [/quote]

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