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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer
Her comment may not be "ideal," but I really don't see it as offensive at all. I think it was just a common reaction to a impending disaster. I also disagree that prayer is inevitably religious. People can pray to many gods/goddesses, the universe, the stars, whomever. Or it can be simply meditation. Prayer is spiritual, but not necessarily religious.
Anyway, it was the hick comment that got me, not your opinion.
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About the first part...you're right.
About the second part...it just reminded me of the people I grew up with, the people who assumed that everyone wants to pray and there's something wrong with them if they don't. The people who have never been anywhere else or seen anything else and think that what they've seen is all there is to see and that everyone else has to agree, and of course adopt their opinions as well. But I know that that wasn't going through Blanco's head at all and there's a chance that she wouldn't have said it at all if she knew people would take it the way my family did. Part of this is the fact that I already really don't like Blanco at all. It's kind of like how some of us get really angry when Bush does something that isn't necessarily that bad, but coupled with other things he's already done, it's bad enough for us to get angry whereas the same action by someone else wouildn't be judged so harshly. Sorry for the sentence fragment and babbling.