Stop whining; you’d be praying, too

Published 9:00 pm Saturday, December 20, 2003

I can’t believe that someone would write a letter complaining about prayer at the bull riders challenge (“Prayer and bull riding: If two go together, I’ll stick with TV,” Dec. 14). I’m more shocked that you would actually print it. I was also at that bull riding challenge. I, like the letter writer, am not at all religious. These guys are about to sit on a bull and get thrown around. Whatever they have to do, praying included, to get them through the ride is fine with me.

There was no reason why this writer couldn’t have stayed in her seat and opted out of praying. If this is the worst thing that she has come across in a while (and I imagine that it was since she had to write a letter about it) then she is doing just fine. Who is she, or any of us, to say that what we believe is right and someone else is wrong? Could it be that not praying would have offended someone else? I suppose that either way someone would have been upset.

Marysville