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Permalink Reply by Strega on March 7, 2013 at 10:06pm

She understands my sarcasm :)

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Permalink Reply by Ilse on March 7, 2013 at 11:25pm

I have seen this sentiment floating around recently... 

Today, I wrote to a good friend who just discovered that he has cancer, and I told him that I was keeping him and his wife close to my heart. That's doing nothing, too. There's nothing I can do. I'm helpless. All I can say is that that he is supported and loved and important to me. That seems to be the same sentiment expressed -- by religious people -- when they say, "I'll keep you in my prayers." And, if it's expressed genuinely, how can letting someone who's sick and afraid know that you care be nothing, really?

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Permalink Reply by Ilse on March 7, 2013 at 11:04pm

I absolutely don't find it insulting, if it's offered to me from a place of love. It is a gift, and it means to me that someone who cares about me is going to keep me in their thoughts and heart, in a way that is meaningful to them.

I guess if someone said "I'll pray for you" in a passive-aggressive way, like, "I'll tap into my direct pipeline to god and speak to him on your behalf so that you can one day wake up and see the light," then, I guess, they can bite me.

It's all about intention. When my best friend flips me off, I know she does it out of love. When some jerkass on the road flips me off, that's another thing. 

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Permalink Reply by Yahweh on March 7, 2013 at 11:14pm

praying makes things worse for the person you pray for. 

So yeah i would be pretty offended if they wished ill willed against yahweh.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Wright on March 7, 2013 at 11:41pm

I'm not easily offended to begin with. Even though, I know it doesn'y do anything, I usually ignore it. I think it's something theists like to say, but I believe very few actually do it. Either way it has no affect on me. Too many people these days are too easily offended. If it doesn't affect me, why should I let it bother me.

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Permalink Reply by John Bridle on March 8, 2013 at 7:29am

I always feel like responding, why don't you do some thing useful instead, but I don't. For the most part they mean well, depends on they context of the conversation.

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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on March 8, 2013 at 9:35am

Just tell them you'd rather have money, if they're insistent (obviously they didn't get the point) then say "OK then, (sigh) I'll take the blow-job."

That should take you off their pray list. :D

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Permalink Reply by Alan C on March 8, 2013 at 5:34pm

Why should it bother you? It does not actually do anything apart from waste the time of the person praying and makes them feel better about themselves.  What's not to like?

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Permalink Reply by kOrsan on March 8, 2013 at 5:48pm

It does not actually do anything apart from waste the time of the person praying

In case you guys haven't noticed, nobody is praying.

"I'll pray for you" is a euphemism for "FUCK YOU! I HOPE YOU BURN YOU ATHEIST ASSHOLE!"

Obviously they can't say that, so they have to act pious.

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