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In reply to the discussion: Breakfast out table next to us bow their heads in prayer. [View all]leftyladyfrommo
(19,766 posts)37. I just ignore that stuff. It only makes them feel
persecuted if you say anything. I used to work with a Pentacostal preacher and he was one of the meanest people I ever knew. Boy did he hate Catholics.
I got him. One morning I told him about the Sisters of Mercy here in KCMO. They were all medical people and they went out at night to houses where family members needed 24 hour care and spent the night so the family could sleep.
He had a severely disabled daughter that needed 24 hour care so he recognized what a wonderful service this was. He even
admitted that it was a really nice thing to do. He had the strangest look on his face.
Score one for me!
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Did they have their arms outstretched and hands waving in the air? I have seen that
doc03
Yesterday
#1
Those would be Pentecostals, I was one as a young man & we went out to eat often,
elocs
Yesterday
#7
My ex was Assembly of God. Horrid people. Let children in other countries starve until they accepted Christ.
mucholderthandirt
Yesterday
#25
I once heard a Pentecostal preacher say from the pulpit that a guy told him he wouldn't
elocs
Yesterday
#43
There is a Biblical passage about how Christians should not be unequally yoked (married),
elocs
Yesterday
#39
You are not the first atheist I have met (in person or online) who has extensive Biblical knowledge.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
Yesterday
#32
As a Christian, I studied the Bible deeply in order to bolster and defend my faith
elocs
Yesterday
#38
As an atheist now, I could support a belief system that is based upon that section of Matthew.
elocs
Yesterday
#46
They don't know Jesus who taught against making a public show of your religiosity.
elocs
Yesterday
#5
I've been known to smile at such people and say "Jesus wept". But I'm mean that way.
mucholderthandirt
Yesterday
#26
I wouldn't have been able to eat my breakfast after hearing that nauseating conversation.
Diamond_Dog
Yesterday
#21
I hope I'm not presented with a similar situation. I will speak up and call them out.
flashman13
Yesterday
#35
Wrapped up in their stupidity infused safety blanket. Woke, immigrants, & transgender, the trifecta of ignorance!
Brainfodder
Yesterday
#42
Sounds right. There is no middle ground with this shit. Deplorable was waaay too kind. n/t
Evolve Dammit
22 hrs ago
#50
Public prayers over meals don't bother me. MAGAGOP politics bothers me. You&I probably agree there.
Hekate
22 hrs ago
#53
I do make a point, if they are obviously too loud and long (it gives me the permission), to join in. I mean ...
marble falls
22 hrs ago
#54