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Originally posted by CrAZyBeAuTiFuL4
If I was in a foreign country and it was considered an offense to that culture if I sat down at any time other than the designated time, I would try my hardest to obey their culture and wishes.
If it's wrong to ask a praying person not to pray isn't it also wrong to ask someone to push aside their beliefs for the sake of someone else's? Which is essentially what these "praying people" are asking others to do. They're basically saying that they shouldn't have to respect other people's right to ask them not to pray in public, they're saying that their beliefs are more important than the "non praying people".
You can't be politically correct all the time. But at the same time, you can try as much as humanly possible to make sure that you don't offend people in the meantime. Instead of having a group prayer before a game, why not just say an individual prayer? It's the same thing, you're still praying and your voice is being heard, but it wouldn't be imposing your system of beliefs on someone else that does share those beliefs with you. |
The people praying are not imposing their beliefs on others by praying. If someone else did not share the beliefs of praying, and heard someone praying, it would likely not change his/her mind one way or the other.
Also, I'm not talking about being in another culture, but I'm talking about someone FROM another culture coming here and doing that. Christians are not purposely going to other cultures to pray, but are in their OWN culture and still being asked not to, it seems. If you would honor that other culture's wishes to not sit down, then why not honor this culture's wishes for them to pray? (They aren't making you pray).