Comments on: Please don’t pray for me http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stevestory http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me/comment-page-1#comment-28432 stevestory Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-28432 I reject that. I hope religious people become irreligious people, and just as there's nothing intolerant about my desire for them to change their minds, there's nothing intolerant about their desire for me to change my mind. I reject that. I hope religious people become irreligious people, and just as there’s nothing intolerant about my desire for them to change their minds, there’s nothing intolerant about their desire for me to change my mind.

]]> By: Esperdome http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me/comment-page-1#comment-28435 Esperdome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-28435 Dave, you can look at it alot of ways, but what comes to mind to me is either: if they're messing with you they must be leaving some poor sucker alone, or, since it can't help it can't hurt. Dave, you can look at it alot of ways, but what comes to mind to me is either: if they’re messing with you they must be leaving some poor sucker alone, or, since it can’t help it can’t hurt.

]]> By: Esperdome http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me/comment-page-1#comment-28436 Esperdome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-28436 I meant to say "some other poor sucker alone". Sorry about that. I meant to say “some other poor sucker alone”. Sorry about that.

]]> By: wdo http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me/comment-page-1#comment-28438 wdo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-28438 <blockquote>But those who pray for me to change need to recognize that it is an act of intolerance -- and I am intolerant of that.</blockquote><br /> Well, perhaps non-injurious acts of intolerance aren't unethical under their particular moral code. If so, and if counter-intolerance isn't immoral under your personal moral code, I have good news: neither of you are doing anything "wrong". <br /> <br /> Huge relief.

But those who pray for me to change need to recognize that it is an act of intolerance — and I am intolerant of that.

Well, perhaps non-injurious acts of intolerance aren’t unethical under their particular moral code. If so, and if counter-intolerance isn’t immoral under your personal moral code, I have good news: neither of you are doing anything “wrong”.

Huge relief.

]]> By: podry http://atheists.org/blog/2006/02/25/please_don_t_pray_for_me/comment-page-1#comment-28439 podry Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-28439 people are strange when you are a stranger...<br /> <br /> if only they knew that praying does not help us...it is a waste of time...<br /> <br /> oh well, atleast we have something to talk about tonight.<br /> <br /> by the way, my washington representative has just sponsored a bill to allow the indiana congress to continue religious prayer before each meeting of congress...<br /> <br /> this completely goes against a federal court ruling outlawing the practice...talk about activists!<br /> <br /> please, write to mr. mike sodrel, rep. from ninth district in indiana and free his mind!<br /> people are strange when you are a stranger…

if only they knew that praying does not help us…it is a waste of time…

oh well, atleast we have something to talk about tonight.

by the way, my washington representative has just sponsored a bill to allow the indiana congress to continue religious prayer before each meeting of congress…

this completely goes against a federal court ruling outlawing the practice…talk about activists!

please, write to mr. mike sodrel, rep. from ninth district in indiana and free his mind!

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