I have spent a lot of time looking for an interesting blog to respond to and I was really pleased to find such a topic. Most people wouldn’t even think of prayer in public places, although it can be considered weird, untactful and somehow offensive. So is prayer in public places a bad thing? Brenda states that it is not, and I find it hard to disagree, but then again what is prayer?
If it is a personal conversation with God, a silent prayer we commence in the privacy of our own head whilst being a public space then there is of course nothing wrong with it.
On the other hand if a person indulges in religious practice while not being in a private home or a house of worship then it might be quite shocking for a random passerby. The worst thing that can concern prayer in public places would be an inability to distinguish between a right and a wrong way to pray in such a place, as well as is the prayer really necessary at that very moment? Every city has dozens of religious spots where people can come and ‘chat’ with God, so is then public prayer a sign of extreme faith or just a really strange way of showing of? Hard to say really, probably both.
If it is a personal conversation with God, a silent prayer we commence in the privacy of our own head whilst being a public space then there is of course nothing wrong with it.
On the other hand if a person indulges in religious practice while not being in a private home or a house of worship then it might be quite shocking for a random passerby. The worst thing that can concern prayer in public places would be an inability to distinguish between a right and a wrong way to pray in such a place, as well as is the prayer really necessary at that very moment? Every city has dozens of religious spots where people can come and ‘chat’ with God, so is then public prayer a sign of extreme faith or just a really strange way of showing of? Hard to say really, probably both.
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