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<blockquote data-quote="ethan_9219" data-source="post: 3273526" data-attributes="member: 132505">Great. Where are these accounts of people being resurrected? Medical science wants to know!&nbsp;&nbsp;Perpetuating ignorance is not particularly funny. Blood libels even less so - it is the accusation usually used as an excuse for killing the heretics/blasphemers/etc. It has been used against just about every religious group at one time or another, and I would have thought you&#039;d have the decency not to continue the propoganda.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lots of things are not meant as offensive, or insulting. They still are.&nbsp;Praying for my safety, or my family&#039;s, is insulting as it suggests our safety is in the hands of some supernatural being that none of us believe in - and that you believe we lack the capability to ensure our safety ourselves. I want none of it.&nbsp;Praying for me to see things differently is downright offensive, though admittedly divine intervention is the only thing likely to change my perspective. You claim to be open-minded and happy to live and let live, yet praying for someone&#039;s mind to be changed suggests there&#039;s something fundamentally wrong with them in the first place.&nbsp;It&#039;s patronising and insulting. I request that you save your effort and do not pray for me in the slightest, I want none of your religion for myself - even if it is true I long ago decided that I will take responsibility for my own actions, and not have them foisted off onto someone else to suffer for me. Even were I a believer that would be the case.&nbsp;I&#039;d prefer to burn in hell than have my mistakes (arbitrarily decided by some deity) visited upon another.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ethan_9219, post: 3273526, member: 132505"] Great. Where are these accounts of people being resurrected? Medical science wants to know! Perpetuating ignorance is not particularly funny. Blood libels even less so - it is the accusation usually used as an excuse for killing the heretics/blasphemers/etc. It has been used against just about every religious group at one time or another, and I would have thought you'd have the decency not to continue the propoganda. Lots of things are not meant as offensive, or insulting. They still are. Praying for my safety, or my family's, is insulting as it suggests our safety is in the hands of some supernatural being that none of us believe in - and that you believe we lack the capability to ensure our safety ourselves. I want none of it. Praying for me to see things differently is downright offensive, though admittedly divine intervention is the only thing likely to change my perspective. You claim to be open-minded and happy to live and let live, yet praying for someone's mind to be changed suggests there's something fundamentally wrong with them in the first place. It's patronising and insulting. I request that you save your effort and do not pray for me in the slightest, I want none of your religion for myself - even if it is true I long ago decided that I will take responsibility for my own actions, and not have them foisted off onto someone else to suffer for me. Even were I a believer that would be the case. I'd prefer to burn in hell than have my mistakes (arbitrarily decided by some deity) visited upon another. [/QUOTE]

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