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In reply to the discussion: I hate when people pray over their food aloud in public [View all]MuseRider
(34,136 posts)my parents thankfully were not like that but the entire rest of my dad's family was. They still are but they really have little to do with me since I don't follow their religion. Sadly, they are about all the family I have left.
Anyway, having grown up with that and been subject to sitting in a Wendy's (or McDonald's or any other place like a Quik Shop buying a coke) while my Uncle went on and on loudly proclaiming his faith and love of his baby Jesus and thy will be done and bring 'em some of that old time religion, THOU ART HEALED crap I totally understand why this annoys you.
My husband has to look at me sternly when a waitress says to have a blessed day. I know it is meant as something nice but the religious overtone of that just pisses me off. I simply can't help it. It is not the religion really, I tend to be so/so about it, I don't care what one believes. It is the in your face, look at me I AM A CHRISTIAN crap that puts me over the edge.
I suppose if I had not had to be healed and saved 1000 times by these people as a little kid because my dad thought they were full of shit (he was evil so I needed to be saved in his name) I would be a little more tolerant.