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Re: $20 to Mint Your Prayers on “The Blockchain”

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Post by tekknik » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 11:55 PM UTC

gumby wrote: post #77

tekknik wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh so you’re religious then? What’s with the “marketing” thing? Can that be taken as hateful or not?

I see billboards and bus bench signs encouraging people to chose this or that religious experience. Tv ads for people to pay for this or that religious knickknack. Are they all hate speech? Jesus famously wasn’t a fan. I was responding in my comment to a previous comment which was correctly describing various parts of the old testament in which their god assails all those other gods, says that you have to worship him…

Since this seems to be hard for you Ill make it easy. Your argument was made in bad faith. It’s extremely easy to tell from the words you wrote that you hate religion. In all other cases in society, if you don’t agree with something you just keep your mouth shut and move on.

Re: $20 to Mint Your Prayers on “The Blockchain”

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Post by hprotagonist » Mon, Mar 28, 2022, 1:42 AM UTC

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #84

hprotagonist wrote: post #6

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagan…

> And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. It's interesting to me that Christians never seem to consider praying standing in churches where they can be seen by others as a violation. They invented a new word (at least in English) for their places of worship, to allow public prayer on a technicality.

the advice here, i think, has more to do with intent and focus, not a checklist of things to do and not do.

eugene peterson’s translation of Matthew 6:6 is

“ Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.”

and that’s at least within the realm of possible for the patterns of communal worship that have come after. I’m inclined to say most of “a church service” isn’t exactly prayer, either.

Re: $20 to Mint Your Prayers on “The Blockchain”

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 1:12 PM UTC

hprotagonist wrote: post #92

SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. It's interesting to me that Christians never seem to consider praying standing in churches where they can be seen by others as a violation. They invented a new word (at least in English) for their places of worship, to allow public prayer on a technicality.

the advice here, i think, has more to do with intent and focus, not a checklist of things to do and not do. eugene peterson’s translation of Matthew 6:6 is “ Here’s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.” and that’s at least…

With many churches, being seen as pious is clearly part of the point. Someone missing Sunday service will be gossiped about. Not wearing your "Sunday Best" clothing will be gossiped about. Many churches I've encountered are very much social signalling between the members, and I've never seen one that restricts itself to a sermon and doesn't include any prayer. They also all have some sort of ritualized action to show that you're praying. Everyone bows their head, or (for Catholics) kneels, or puts their hands together, or some similar "see how I pray" signal.