View Single Post
Old 08-31-2008, 01:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
QUINNSCOMMENTARY
Unintended Consequences
Supporting Member
 
QUINNSCOMMENTARY's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: USA
country flag
Posts: 919
Religious Displays in Public

I was just in a restaurant and the people sitting next to me began their meal holding hands and praying. While in Heathrow airport last week there were several orthodox Jews in their traditional clothing praying, swaying back and forth, and reading from a book, presumably the Torah, out loud.

I am not an overly religious person and I am definitely not a person who would display any religious activity or special garb in public, I find religion a very personal and very private experience, but obviously my views are my views and not shared by many people. I actually find overt public displays of religious beliefs or practices embarrassing.

How do you feel when the person sitting next to you starts praying or reading out load from his or her Holy book?
__________________
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." George Bernard Shaw

"If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody is not thinking" Gen. George Patton

Quinnscommentary


Observations on Life. Give it a try now and tell a friend or two or fifty.

Quinnscommentary Blog

Local Time: 02:56 AM
Local Date: 11-21-2009
QUINNSCOMMENTARY is offline  
Reply With Quote