Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxw.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxw!pector From: pector@ihuxw.UUCP (Scott W. Pector) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Non-Sectarian Dinner Prayer Message-ID: <714@ihuxw.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Feb-84 16:14:17 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxw.714 Posted: Tue Feb 21 16:14:17 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Feb-84 02:30:37 EST References: <341@hogpc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 At first, this seems to be quite difficult. But I think I have found a way to not offend the followers of any religion or philosophy, or any atheists! In fact, here are two alternatives: 1. We'd like to thank the Invisible Hand of Adam Smith, for it is not due to the kindness of the butcher or the farmer or the processor or the grocer or ... that we have our sustenance before us today; rather, it is the needs and greed of the above parties that invisibly guides them to provide for our well-being. Amen. 2. We'd like to thank the good people at (fill-in-your-food- stores) for selling the sustenance before us and to thank all those who, in a chain of services, allow the (foodstores) to stock what we are about to eat. We'd also like to thank (fill-in-your-employers) for the money we had to purchase the aforementioned sustenance. Amen. I hope these suffice. (This isn't sarcastic, it's just good clean fun. Honestly, I don't know how ANYONE can make a prayer that would not offend SOME group. Remember, atheists are people, too!) Scott Pector