Do you pray before a meal?

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

So, do you pray before meals?

[Tidewater_Wave]

Yes about half the time but not as much as I should.

[Redalgo]

No, but I do usually go along with it for the sake of being amiable and preventing awkwardness when a host insists on performing the ritual. There is a time and place for being assertive, really.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yes about half the time but not as much as I should.

[Frodo]

Yes, but only on special occasions like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. 

[Insula Dei]

No.

[© tweed]

I only pray for certain results in spectator sports.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Not often. Only at big family meetups. I was once with a church group that said grace even though we just ordered pizza and had a bunch of weed that was being passed around, lol.

[Tidewater_Wave]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

[Joe Republic]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

The nature of this forum tends to attract young and/or intelligent people.  Ergo, it's disproportionately more atheist/agnostic than society at large.

[Tidewater_Wave]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

The nature of this forum tends to attract young and/or intelligent people.  Ergo, it's disproportionately more atheist/agnostic than society at large.

I noticed the young part lol. There's nothing wrong with that as long as arguments actually come from the self and not mass media or party elites.

[opebo]

Encouraging about the atheist majority (for the moment).  I don't pray before the meal, but when I see others do it I silently condemn them as 'to be avoided'.

[greenforest32]

No, I'm trying to eat. Keep your religion to yourself, it's not something to be proud about.

[Alcon]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

The nature of this forum tends to attract young and/or intelligent people.  Ergo, it's disproportionately more atheist/agnostic than society at large.

I noticed the young part lol. There's nothing wrong with that as long as arguments actually come from the self and not mass media or party elites.

I'd not exactly say the mass-media and party elites are propagating some kind of atheist agenda...

Also, n=19

[afleitch]

Never have. Never been a family thing either.

[Tidewater_Wave]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

The nature of this forum tends to attract young and/or intelligent people.  Ergo, it's disproportionately more atheist/agnostic than society at large.

I noticed the young part lol. There's nothing wrong with that as long as arguments actually come from the self and not mass media or party elites.

I'd not exactly say the mass-media and party elites are propagating some kind of atheist agenda...

Also, n=19

n= naive

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

We definitely have a disproportional balance of Christians to atheists on this forum if 10 here are atheists and only half that many are Christians.

The nature of the Internet tends to attract young and/or intelligent people.  Ergo, it's disproportionately more atheist/agnostic than society at large.

[memphis]

Surprised how many people said yes. I waited tables for a while in my younger days. I've seen a lot of people eat, and even here in the Bible Belt, you almost never see people praying before they eat. Or do you guys just not do it in public?

[Linus Van Pelt]

Surprised how many people said yes. I waited tables for a while in my younger days. I've seen a lot of people eat, and even here in the Bible Belt, you almost never see people praying before they eat. Or do you guys just not do it in public?

I think the usual position for Christians who aren't hard-core fundamentalists is to say grace around the family dinner table but not to bother when out in public. I don't anymore at all, but this was how my (church-going) family did it when I was growing up.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Surprised how many people said yes. I waited tables for a while in my younger days. I've seen a lot of people eat, and even here in the Bible Belt, you almost never see people praying before they eat. Or do you guys just not do it in public?

Prayer need not be showy, flashy, or even spoken aloud.  Indeed, the NT frowns upon ostentatious prayers.

[ZuWo]

Yes, at every meal. I pray aloud when I'm at home or eat together with other Christians and silently when I'm in public.

[Torie]

If someone else offers a prayer before digging in, I bow my head along with everyone else, and listen, and even say "amen," at its conclusion. It's a matter of being polite and respectful.  Otherwise no. I'm Godless.

[politicus]

Almost always. Unless I am eating with someone who dislikes it a lot or make of fun of it. I am generally too hungry before a meal to bother arguing with stupid people.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's not something we ever did, so no.

[Yelnoc]

Every dinner, my mother or father lead us in a short prayer.  I close my eyes and bow my head out of respect to them, rather than out of fear of their God.