Rules for Mealtime Prayers.

[Gregg]

This should clear things up.

https://youtu.be/2VK4uyxeMXk

[Gregg]

Crickets?

I thought this was hilarious.

If we can't poke fun at ourselves...

[B-Fly]

Crickets?

I thought this was hilarious.

If we can't poke fun at ourselves...

YouTube is blocked at my office.

[Gregg]

YouTube is blocked at my office.

And it appears that my work firewall will not let me post the video like everyone else on here. Steve tried to help and I could not make it work.

[Redbirds Fan]

Very funny. Bordering on hilarious.

[TranaGreg]

YouTube is blocked at my office.

ditto

[Steve 2.0]

As an atheist, I can easily decide which foods to bless.

[Gregg]

As an atheist, I can easily decide which foods to bless.

Did you laugh?

[Steve 2.0]

Did you laugh?

I'm not going to lie to you. No. As an atheist, I have no sense of humour.

[Teenwolf]

I enjoyed their takedown of Christian music more (the dinner prayer jokes were over my head I guess). Clever and specific, and in my extremely limited exposure to Christian music, all of their critiques seemed pretty accurate. Wasn't someone here mainly listening to Christian music these days? Curious what a fan would think of that one.

[Gregg]

I enjoyed their takedown of Christian music more (the dinner prayer jokes were over my head I guess). Clever and specific, and in my extremely limited exposure to Christian music, all of their critiques seemed pretty accurate. Wasn't someone here mainly listening to Christian music these days? Curious what a fan would think of that one.

Prayers before meals have for some become legalistic and rote. This spoofs that aspect of us.

[Gregg]

I'm not going to lie to you. No. As an atheist, I have no sense of humour.

Oh, well I am going to lie to you. That is just great.

[Steve 2.0]

Oh, well I am going to lie to you. That is just great.

True story. I was recently at a meeting at a restaurant. There were probably 10-15 of us around the table. All of a sudden, the two people on either side of me grab my hands and we're now having a public prayer over our meal in a public restaurant. Now, these are all friends of mine and one is a Baptist minister (who was giving the blessing) - it made me very uncomfortable. Frankly, if I had been thinking, I would have excused myself from the table. But, I'm also sure they would have just waited until I returned. My point is that it's aggravating when everyone just assumes that everyone at the table wants to participate in their religious rituals. And this is probably why I didn't find the video funny.

I was dating a lady back in the spring who considered herself to be a "recovering Catholic". I had never heard the term, so I looked it up and it seems that a "recovering Catholic" is someone who thinks their relationship with the Catholic Church was detrimental to them. I now consider myself a "recovering Baptist".

[Gregg]

True story. I was recently at a meeting at a restaurant. There were probably 10-15 of us around the table. All of a sudden, the two people on either side of me grab my hands and we're now having a public prayer over our meal in a public restaurant. Now, these are all friends of mine and one is a Baptist minister (who was giving the blessing) - it made me very uncomfortable. Frankly, if I had been thinking, I would have excused myself from the table. But, I'm also sure they would have just waited until I returned. My point is that it's aggravating when everyone just assumes that everyone at the table wants to participate in their religious rituals. And this is probably why I didn't find the video funny.

I was dating a lady back in the spring who considered herself to be a "recovering Catholic". I had never heard the term, so I looked it up and it seems that a "recovering Catholic" is someone who thinks their relationship with the Catholic Church was detrimental to them. I now consider myself a "recovering Baptist".

I am sorry that they did that to you.

That said if you didn't pray then you were just holding hands with friends that wanted to include you.

[DMT]

Yea this isn't really that funny to me because I have always been super uncomfortable when people pray around a meal I'm about to eat. Thankfully it's been years since I've found myself in this situation.