Breakfast out table next to us bow their heads in prayer.

[Duncanpup]

Then i could hear them complaining basically maga talking points.
Pope is too woke
Transgender getting booted from military
Who cares about immigrants being sent to foreign prisons.
Deport all foreigners no due process
Oh here’s one that was old litter boxes in school for students who identify as furries.
Congress needs to pass trumps big beautiful bill.

I kept quiet although i wanted to ask them if they ever heard of a guy called Jesus.

[doc03]

1. Did they have their arms outstretched and hands waving in the air? I have seen that

public display many times.

[Duncanpup]

2. Doc they all held hands

[magicarpet]

56. Next time you stop by the diner....

Bring a canvas dufflebag with ten snakes and ten bibles. Then polish up on your ability to speak and pray in tongues.

If the back parking lot is big enough consider pitching a tent for weekly revival meetings.

Reverent Duncan has a nice ring to it.

[soldierant]

62. I'd hate to

impoverish the owners of the establishment because some patrons are sick.

[magicarpet]

64. Just trying to get him to smirk,....

..... at the absurdity of it all.

[elocs]

7. Those would be Pentecostals, I was one as a young man & we went out to eat often,

but we never raised our hands and had pretty ordinary conversations that you wouldn't hear unless you were trying to listen in on it. They were good people because they would help anyone in need without demanding to know if the person was a believer or not, but to be a good witness for Jesus and have a chance to witness. There are all kinds of religious people.
I am an atheist now but I've read the entire Bible several times and studied it in its original languages.

[erronis]

17. Married a Pentacostal - interesting experience, me being anti-religious

I'm fine with people believing in whatever they want. Just don't try to change me to match your cult's ideas. Besides this person would change from religious to drunk to party girl when it suited her.

[CanonRay]

20. Sounds like my ex

[erronis]

22. She did "get around". Wanna compare notes?

[CanonRay]

23. No thanks, truly bad memories

Leave them buried

[mucholderthandirt]

25. My ex was Assembly of God. Horrid people. Let children in other countries starve until they accepted Christ.

Was forced to go to church at times (got tired of arguing), waving hands, stumbling about, collapsed on the floor in spasms, speaking in tongues. Ex said, it's in the Bible. I said it sure was. Someone who understands the passage should explain what it actually meant.

People can call themselves "Christian" all they want. When they are going against Christ's teachings, they are liars and hypocrites. The one sin God can not forgive? Hypocrisy. Because the hypocrites don't believe they've sinned, and thus can't ask for forgiveness.

[elocs]

43. I once heard a Pentecostal preacher say from the pulpit that a guy told him he wouldn't

go to church because there were too many hypocrites. The preacher said he told him, "Well come right in, one more wouldn't make any difference."
The Bible says that the unforgivable sin is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Even a hypocrite can have a moment of contrition and ask for forgiveness.

[elocs]

39. There is a Biblical passage about how Christians should not be unequally yoked (married),

believer and non-believer. It would be hard to imagine any Pentecostal preacher who would agree to marry such a couple.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. You are not the first atheist I have met (in person or online) who has extensive Biblical knowledge.

I find it interesting that there are people who have studied and read the Bible in-depth and end up shunning religion completely. And I mean that as a positive comment.

[elocs]

38. As a Christian, I studied the Bible deeply in order to bolster and defend my faith

and came out the other side an atheist.
The last 2 years before I retired I worked at the Salvation Army as a custodian. In my interview I did mention a passage in Matthew. A month after I had been working I told my supervisor with whom I worked closely that I was an atheist (he is a strong Baptist). You could have knocked him over with a feather because based upon how I treated people there, the clients and homeless, he assumed I was a Christian. But what surprised me the most is that he respected my decision and promised he would never try and witness to me or to get me to come back into the fold, and he didn't.

As an atheist, I do not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There is much of what Jesus says and teaches that is admirable and would make a good philosophy. Even in the Old Testament there are things like a concern or for animals or an admonition to treat strangers well because the Jews were once strangers in a strange land themselves.

[KPN]

47. Recommended .... X 1000

[ChazInAz]

49. I'm one.

I attended a well-known, very liberal Methodist university in central Illinois. Needless to say, religion classes were part of the curriculum, but with students of every faith (or none) from all over the world, there were some special courses.Two were my favorites: a history of Buddhism and an in-depth study of the Bible as a document. That latter was taught by a Rabbi and members of the Greek and Latin languages faculty. That sort of thing will turn anyone into an atheist or agnostic.

[malaise]

3. Let us PREY...

on all who don’t look or sound like us.
Rec

[onethatcares]

4. "And when you pray"

go into your closet"

They constantly forget the rest of the admonitions.

[3catwoman3]

11. Along with the "Judge ye not..." admonition.

And the whole Matthew 25:31-46 thing.

I always have to look up the 31-46 part as I am no biblical scholar. Not even close. I think this is one of the few sections worth remembering and acting on.

[elocs]

46. As an atheist now, I could support a belief system that is based upon that section of Matthew.

It's ironic how the denominations that are viewed by conservative denominations as being "liberal" are the ones today who are helping the homeless and the hungry the most.

[calimary]

33. THAT'S a Scripture passage that I can never forget.

Matthew 6:6-7 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

“But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.“

In other words, it’s NOT about showboating. One of my favorites.

[elocs]

5. They don't know Jesus who taught against making a public show of your religiosity.

But keeping quiet was a good choice because they also have freedom of speech as much as we dislike what they are saying. You overheard their conversation, they weren't preaching at you or confronting you.

[iscooterliberally]

6. Prey to Jesus, vote for Barabbas. It's the republican way. n/t

[cayugafalls]

9. Matthew 6:5

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.”

All they have is their vanity and their self-righteousness.

They do not know Jesus or what it means to be moral, compassionate and honest.

[Prairie Gates]

10. They covered quite a lot of ground for a breakfast conversation

[Iris]

12. Good lord. They hit all the talking points in one meal?

These people are brainwashed.

[hunter]

15. They don't have anything else to talk about...

... the voices on the television, radio, internet, and their preachers fill their heads, displacing any original thought.

[Aviation Pro]

13. Let me guess

60s and 70s but look much older?

[twodogsbarking]

14. Run Duncan, run.

Belly rub for the furry one.

[Clouds Passing]

16. I would have asked to be moved to a table far away from them.

[Ferrets are Cool]

61. Absolutely

[ms liberty]

18. The litter boxes thing would have sent me over the edge

Because the litter boxes are for kids to pee/poop in during a lockdown. Lockdowns nowadays are usually for school shootings. But you can guarantee they're "gunz okay" 2A believers.

[CTyankee]

19. Maybe shake your head and loudly whisper "Father, forgive them..."

just after you pay your bill and leave.

[mucholderthandirt]

26. I've been known to smile at such people and say "Jesus wept". But I'm mean that way.

[stillcool]

57. Ellie Griffiths?

I'd never heard that expression until I read the Ruth Galloway series. Now I'll never forget it.

[Diamond_Dog]

21. I wouldn't have been able to eat my breakfast after hearing that nauseating conversation.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. i wish u did !!!!

and the pope is just right to me .

[Dreamer Tatum]

27. So they hit every single story in the news cycle.

How oddly convenient and specific.

[usonian]

28. It is right to thank Jesus.

[SheltieLover]

29. Typical magats, Dunc

[Sharma Dreihund]

30. Matthew 7:12 or Leviticus 19:18

You might try a call back prayer to the teachings of not just Jesus, but the Old Testament, too? “So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do unto you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7:12 is easier to remember than the Leviticus verse because Matthew 7: 12 can be summed up by praying for all of us to remember The Golden Rule.

[albacore]

31. I'll bet they stiffed the server, too.... nt

[lastlib]

34. I would've reminded them that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.....

....were undocumented immigrants, crossed a border illiegally.

[flashman13]

35. I hope I'm not presented with a similar situation. I will speak up and call them out.

[elocs]

48. But then they have their own free speech rights as well.

It seems that their conversation was one overheard by the OP who was sitting close to them, not that they were preaching to the restaurant. If they had been eating quietly nearby and heard you talking about whatever it was that they seriously disagreed to hearing would it them be ok for them to call you out?
A simple suggestion which I have read would simply to be asked to be moved elsewhere if possible.

[bif]

36. Looks like FOX is doing their job!

[leftyladyfrommo]

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!

[Nanjeanne]

40. Wow. That's quite a MAGA list for a breakfast

outing with the family. You’d think they might have talked about sports or movies or gossip about friends! No way to start the day.

[pwb]

41. You should have said Grace to Satan?

Asking him to please take all haters.

[relayerbob]

60. That would've been redundant

[Brainfodder]

42. Wrapped up in their stupidity infused safety blanket. Woke, immigrants, & transgender, the trifecta of ignorance!

Maybe we need to get a group of democrats together to go around informing these small groups of idiots, make it know that we are ready and able to kick their dumb brained sorry not sorry obvious dumb shit believing asses many times over?

One member of the crew has the bullhorn, and all have pepper spray and or better defensive weapons?

Walk through the WM and such in your area and have a heart to heart with every red hat, have a double sided page full of links to all the evidence and such, not leaving them empty handed.
Feeling up to it, blanket every windshield in the parking lot with a double-sided takedown of their own?

This is low tech and feasible.

[ananda]

44. To riff off Will Rogers: Christianity aint what it used to be...

but then it never was.

[Jean Genie]

45. WWJT (What would Jesus think)

Must be somewhat painful to be so arrogantly self-righteous. Or maybe not. I guess the
Golden Rule is not part of their theological belief system. I commend you, Duncanpup, for not hauling off and hitting them!

[Evolve Dammit]

50. Sounds right. There is no middle ground with this shit. Deplorable was waaay too kind. n/t

[Blue Owl]

51. I hate that sanctimonious display of praying in public

Makes me wanna

[Tribetime]

52. The Pope is too woke.....Tell Jesus that one while you pray

They know better than the Pope does

[Hekate]

53. Public prayers over meals don't bother me. MAGAGOP politics bothers me. You&I probably agree there.

[marble falls]

54. I do make a point, if they are obviously too loud and long (it gives me the permission), to join in. I mean ...

... why would they make a point of me hearing that sheep dip if they weren't inviting my input? I don't speak any louder than them. I make no obscene remarks. I stay on news and policy. I do it to people on phones in restaurants, too.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

55. Why bother?

I'd move to a different table, or a different restaurant.

[Skittles]

58. more proof to me

a lot of so-called "faith" is utter fucking bullshit

[relayerbob]

59. Should have loudly requested another table

[Tribetime]

63. Dear Lord May nobody shoot me in the back while

I'm shooting somebody else in the front....Evil Roy Slade

[nilram]

65. Maybe they were praying to Cthulhu

[Martin Eden]

66. They're in a cult which has nothing to do with Jesus

Except to wear their religiosity on their sleeve as a badge of moral superiority.