They probably just mistook you for someone less nice.
Myself, I can take or leave any sort of superstition as long as it's not too aggressive, but I've known some predatory christians who go around basically looking for people experiencing distress or a moment of weakness.
That's when they make their sales pitch, which usually consists of "I'm going to pray for you and get all my friends to pray for you, and if your problem goes away then it's proven that god saved you and you need to believe what I believe or else you're an ungrateful bitch and you're going to hell!" Not in so many words, of course, but that's the general gist.
So when I see someone offer to pray for me I'm always on my guard: are they simply a kindly well-wisher who cares about my problems, deserving thanks... or are they a dogmatic jackal out for fresh meat, deserving to be torn into in a public forum? Maybe they mistook your well-intentioned well-wishing for the latter?
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Date: 2002-07-10 06:09 pm (UTC)Myself, I can take or leave any sort of superstition as long as it's not too aggressive, but I've known some predatory christians who go around basically looking for people experiencing distress or a moment of weakness.
That's when they make their sales pitch, which usually consists of "I'm going to pray for you and get all my friends to pray for you, and if your problem goes away then it's proven that god saved you and you need to believe what I believe or else you're an ungrateful bitch and you're going to hell!" Not in so many words, of course, but that's the general gist.
So when I see someone offer to pray for me I'm always on my guard: are they simply a kindly well-wisher who cares about my problems, deserving thanks... or are they a dogmatic jackal out for fresh meat, deserving to be torn into in a public forum? Maybe they mistook your well-intentioned well-wishing for the latter?