So for the rest of this day, I’ll be getting texts from 17 other people responding to this prayer request.
Edit: Other than the initial flurry of hearts and replies pictured below, it’s actually been pretty quiet, thank goodness.
Reply to them with Matthew 6:5-8:
5 “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward! 6 But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you. 7 When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
Tempting. My husband and I have stood in silent exasperation many times while grace was said over holiday meals. These are Baptists, and one of my uncles is a pastor, so prayers are long and wordy.
I wait an appropriate amount of time, like I would for any culture, then I just shrug and start eating lol.
They can observe their religion and pray, but I’m going to eat now, especially if I prepared the food.
It’s a request in good faith. Why of all things would you take issues with this? Nor are you forced to abide by that, but surely posting it online, even with the names hidden, is sort of breaking a small social contract between you and them, thar you wouldn’t use their words against them.
It is incredibly rude to ask someone not of their religion to pray. In addition to the minor annoyance of being bomblasted by emojis and texts.
Another take on my post:
“My relative is asking me to pray to Poseidon for calm seas while her daughter goes on a sea voyage to convert people into our cult of human sacrifice.”
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My condolences. It’s such a stupid, dangerous, and exploitative practice.
In my former religion, it was 2 years in a foreign country. I’m lucky many of my family members came back alive, given the places they were sent. They “laugh” about stories of being assaulted, robbed, houses broken into, extorted and threatened, but it’s a joke now because it’s all part of “gods plan”
So disgusting.
(Edit: It’s also a way to make sure that they face stress and doubt away from any resources that might help them out of the abuse. Instead they’re at all times with another cult member tasked with keeping them on the straight and narrow. It’s more a 2 year indoctrination session where the member gets exposed to anti-religious views through aggressive proselytizing, but then is forced to work through that alternate view in a directed and monitored way so that they reach the “right” conclusion. When they get back, they’re so much more incredibly difficult to have a conversation with, because they’ve entrenched all the bullshit)
🙏For the person sitting next to her on the plane to leave the armrest for her🙏
I like that they list the exact prayers they want, I hate when they just ask you to pray for them, I need specifics, Deborah!
WWJD? Send an itemized list, of course.
It’s like a wishlist to Santa.
@cheesymoonshadow
Prayer is for when you think God’s plan isn’t good enough & you want him to change it to your plan.I vaguely remember asking my mom about this when I was younger. Mom was the religious leader of our family, and I considered her a good authority on the subject because she said she almost lost her faith in college and did her own research which led her back to God.
She told me the act of prayer itself was a form of praise, an exercise of humility and deference to God. It doesn’t mean that God will change his mind; it just shows you’re humbling yourself before him and submitting to his will.
It hardly makes sense to me now but I bought into it 100% at the time.
Yup. They’re really good at rationalizing nice sounding bullshit to justify what they were already doing.
it just shows you’re humbling yourself before him and submitting to his will.
by asking him to change it to your will? pfft, typical self-serving, double-speak nonsense.
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That’s a lotta high fives!
Haha, that’s how I will look at it from now on.
I’m sorry for her and for you and your ignorance in believing that humans need to go around proselyting to each other about a fictional horrid deity who cares less about human life than causing men to murder each other in the name of religious nut-jobbery.
I hope your family member never succeeds in this horrible exercise of human vanity and terror. Missionaries are equivalent to walking dog excrement and that’s exactly how I perceive them. I hope this person gets very ill and never gets to complete their so-called mission - a mission of perversion if ever there was one.
