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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's what I don't get: you say that he usurped your role as host because it was your job to offer a prayer. Well, you DIDN'T and weren't going to. So it seems like you are just mad that there was a prayer at all, rather than the hosting thing. I still find it so strange that anyone finds a pre-dinner prayer weird or offensive. I imagine this is common in many religions besides Christianity, too. [/quote]

Why is this so hard to understand? I don't mind other people praying, what I resent is being roped in to it.

I don't believe in your god, and [b]I don't want to pray to him. Please respect that[/b].[/quote]

I respect that in a public setting.  At someone's home for Christmas dinner, which you knowingly and willingly attended, are you saying that you'd be offended if they said a prayer?  I agree, you shouldn't be required to hold hands and say Amen, Praise the Lord(!), but you'd really be offended by the actual saying of grace itself?[/quote]

The entire point is that the "someone" in question was not, in fact, interested in saying a prayer. Their table (and guests) was hijacked by this deeply in-Christian FIL. But never mind the details, in some whacked out America Christian's minds, they're always the victim.[/quote]

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