"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 12/21/2011 9:58 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
>> that does bother me, and in my circle of friends/work mattes, it
>> always
>> ticks me off big time, we can translate into spanish a meal blessing,
>> but
>> its always a christian prayer, i know of several of our managers who
>> are
>> jewish or... grr seik, not sure thats spelled right, why not a nice
>> jewish
>> blessing or seik prayer for once, Lee
>
>
> Lee,
>
> I think any blessing thanking the Creator for the bounty of the food
> is appropriate. Just don't name any deity.
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Or we could embrace everyone's right to freedom of choice and allow
others to celebrate their religion, or not. I have no problem with
people having public celebrations along with their decorations. Seeing
multi cultural and multi religious occasions can be an education IMO.
Forcing people to hide who they are is not right, again IMO. I am a
Christian and I think Christmas is very commercial but I celebrate
Christmas as a fun time holiday which makes a lot of people happy and
their is a lot of giving. The whole Christmas thing doesn't alter my
beliefs because one can "celebrate" their religion 24/7. With the prayer
thing, I can't see why people can't rotate the blessing so everyone gets
to say out loud a prayer that is applicable to them. In your hearts you
are still thanking your chosen deity or way of life but you are allowing
freedom of expression for all.