A Cancer Survivor Designs the Cards She Wishes She’d Received From Friends and Family

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91. But some of these posters seem to take comments like

"I'll pray for you" as trying to force their religious beliefs. Unless the person is such a jerk as to warn the cancer sufferer they are going to hell unless they convert, I don't see them as forcing their religion on general statements like they are going to pray. Though the prayers are useless to the sufferer, they aren't to the praying-person, and that makes it good wishes or doing something good. That's the intent.

Saying to some religious person to fuck off because your prayers and thoughts are useless is extremely hostile. That would get some understanding since the person is the cancer sufferer. I imagine there is an angry era where one would feel angry at the people who don't have to deal with this saying platitudes. And it seems like they don't want religious people to even talk about their religion, which they insist on interpreting as forcing it on others. If the person is religious, they have a right to talk about that as much as anyone else and it will infuse their language.