| Re: Praying in poker
I don't see praying as any different than any other form of exhibition. It's not more annoying to me, but as I've expressed in other threads, I think excessive public display shows poor self-control and a lack of consideration for others.
Personally, I don't understand praying in competition. I would expand this to say that I don't understand when athletes credit their god for their performance. I know that doing so is not intended to be insensitive, but at the very least it seems in bad taste. All kinds of very sad, difficult things happen to good people--illness, hardship, disaster, crisis--for which it would seem there was no divine intervention to prevent the bad things from happening. It's always bothered me when people pray over petty things, or suggest that god intervenes in sports competition. It just seems narrow minded and not very well thought-out. I guess it also seems narcissistic and priviledged. | 
