# I'm So Glad I Found God and I Pray Someday You Will Too **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 24, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397 "2002-08-24T20:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/1 "2002-08-24T20:39:12Z")
Are you there God? It’s me, **minty**. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/2 "2002-08-24T20:41:16Z")
Was he lost? ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/3 "2002-08-24T20:41:16Z")
Uh oh, I think the rapture may have come sooner than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![Rossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/4 "2002-08-24T20:41:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minty green \* > \*\*Are you there God? It’s me, **minty**. \*\* Yeah, this is God. But look, I’m really busy at the moment. Can you call back? ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/5 "2002-08-24T20:50:24Z")
Heh - Well I don’t know if that means this wasn’t meant to be, but I’ll try one more time and we’ll see. Yes I do. Call me arrogant or self-righteous, that’s okay, it’s been said before [One Example](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=130887&pagenumber=5). You may not appreciate it but my God tells me to pray for those who don’t know him and that’s what I have been doing and will continue to do. I’m going to pray for those of you that don’t know him but have asked him to reveal himself to you, I’m going to pray for those of you that used to know him and have walked away. I’m going to pray that you will experience the power of God’s spirit in your life. I’m going to pray for those of you that have a hatred towards God, and for those of you who don’t believe he exists. Yes I have been and will continue to pray for all of you. I realize that some of you may be upset that I’ve even said this but I can’t apologize for it. I’m not asking anything from you, I’m not preaching to you or telling you you’re wrong, I just wanted you to know know that I am praying for you in the hopes that you can someday experience the unconditional love from God that I have. I felt this was appropriate to post this here in the pit. I do not expect a total positive response. I just have had this on my heart for awhile and I felt I needed to say it. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/6 "2002-08-24T20:52:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rossarian \* > \*\* > > Yeah, this is God. But look, I’m really busy at the moment. Can you call back? \*\* Dammit, **Rossarian** , I’ve talked with you about pretending to be me before. Now it’s off to the fiery pits with you! ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/7 "2002-08-24T20:53:05Z")
dreamer, I’m just glad to see you are still here. I was a bit worried about all those cars on the road and planes in the sky without drivers/pilots. Keep up those prayers! ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/8 "2002-08-24T20:53:54Z")
Well, if you really cared about me, you’d pray to God and ask him to bless me with some money. Really. That’ll help me a lot more than his ‘love’–unless he’s the type of guy who shows his love with money. Or even better, tries to buy love. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/9 "2002-08-24T21:00:20Z")
Okay, since I had the first wisecrack at the disappearing OP, I feel obligated to offer a serious response. DanielWithrow called you smug and self-righteous in response to this comment of yours: > [@](#): > > I’d name a few people who I think will someday find God, but I don’t think they would appreciate that . 😉 And I have to say, it did come off as self-righteous. Once again, it smacks of the sort of _in-you-heart-you-know-God-is-real_ thinking that theists often ascribe to atheists and agnostics. In fact, that’s quite incorrect, and it comes off as an arrogant attempt to project your beliefs onto somebody else. Don’t presume to know what’s in somebody else’s heart or mind, okay? Having said that, you’re more than welcome to pray for whatever and whoever you want. I’d be just as happy if you were to drink a toast wishing me good health and prosperity, but the sentiment, at least, is noted and appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/10 "2002-08-24T21:02:31Z")
**plg:** \*Can’t buy me loo-ove . . . \* 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/11 "2002-08-24T21:13:35Z")
While you’re praying, **dreamer** , could you please ask your god to tell his disciples to keep their [hands off my sister?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=131890) She really doesn’t like that. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/12 "2002-08-24T21:15:04Z")
Wow, that was the coolest disappearing OP since **Esprix** ’s OP disappeared in a thread titled “I’m Leaving…” The jokes on this one were just too good to go unsaid! I dunno **mintygreen** , I have a morbid curiousity about her naming names of people she anticipates converting in the future. It’s the Pit after all, she could name all the names she wanted to. I suppose it might be a little smug, but it would be interesting to see her reasoning on that. It was really quite baffling to see a pit thread from dreamer. When you run down the list of things you expect to see in the Pit, this ain’t on it. It just seems to _nice_, even if it is presumptuous. I don’t know if she expected some really vitriolic replies, coz I don’t see them coming. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/13 "2002-08-24T21:19:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DMC \* > \*\*Uh oh, I think the rapture may have come sooner than we thought. \*\* It’s not often that I come across such a witty response compelling me to acknowledge it. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/14 "2002-08-24T21:21:18Z")
Since the OP has apparently ascended into heaven or descended into hell- Why is this in the **BBQ Pit**? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/15 "2002-08-24T21:32:51Z")
'cause God wanted it there ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/16 "2002-08-24T21:38:35Z")
Thanks **dreamer** , I appreciate the sentiment. Put me in the doubting Thomas category, but I still appreciate it. I could use something good in my life right now. My wife just had her second miscarriage in as many years. We still have no kids. Pray for her. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/17 "2002-08-24T21:39:43Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know if she expected some really vitriolic replies, coz I don’t see them coming. I wasn’t sure what to expect which is why I posted it here. If it isn’t appropriate then mods go ahead and move it. I didn’t want to come off as being rude so I tried to write it in a “nice” way. I see it started with a little humor, which wasn’t my intention, but I don’t think naming names is really necessary. Though, since you posted I guess I can start with you… \*dreamer’s prayer list \* **1. RexDart** Is that satisfactory to your morbid curiousity? Also I didn’t say I was going to convert anybody, just pray for them. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/18 "2002-08-24T21:48:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dreamer \* > \*\*Also I didn’t say I was going to convert anybody, just pray for them. \*\* Aren’t you supposed to pray quietly, like in a closet, rather than announcing to the world that you are indeed praying, and for whom and what you’re praying for? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/19 "2002-08-24T21:59:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **dreamer** \* > I just wanted you to know know that I am praying for you in the hopes that you can someday experience the unconditional love from God that I have. Now I may be wrong about this (IANATheologist), but don’t most conceptions of Christianity include God unconditionally loving _everyone_? ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397/20 "2002-08-24T22:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dreamer \* > \*\* > I didn’t want to come off as being rude so I tried to write it in a “nice” way. \*\* The problem, **dreamer** , is that the implication isn’t very respectful: “Hello, all, just wanted to let you know that I’ll be praying for all you lost souls. Don’t bother thanking me when we get to our great reward. Just knowing that I helped you on your path to glory will be enough thanks for me. Bye now.” Yes, I know that’s not what you meant. But that sort of announcement can easily lead to a feeling of disrespect, and really the announcement itself serves no purpose. It has no witness value. (This is not to say, however, that when comforting someone in pain or doubt, that a quiet, “I’ll pray for you,” doesn’t have its place.) If you want to pray for me or anyone, please do so. But keep it between you and your God. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-glad-i-found-god-and-i-pray-someday-you-will-too/125397.md?page=2)