Allow The REAL God of Heaven to bless your employees through prayers of REAL Godly people

You sound like one of those people that goes into a retail store
during the holidays and starts preaching to the employees about "your
salvation with the lord Jesus Christ" and handing out pamphlets about
how if you don't change, you'll go to hell.

Do everyone a favor, and stop trying to impose your religious beliefs
on people. Keep your religion in your heart and off your sleeve.

Obviously you are just stirring up crap (or Allah help us you are a
crazy fundamentalist). "They allow employees to take time out to pray
to other gods, why not allow prayers to the REAL God have free reign".
Did you know that Jews, Christians AND Muslims all pray to the same
god, just in different ways? No joke!

What you really want is for everyone to agree with you. It has
nothing to do with God or religion even. Seek help.

God bless the 1st Amendment, keeping the church (not God) out "of our
schools" since 1791!

I really wish more christians acted like Christ.

God does not belong in target. Keep it at home and in church/temple
whatever.

Real god? Whose to say what god is real or not, I'd love to see prayer
be allowed in a store. I'd love to see if because the second a muslim
pulled out a matt to pray you would be the first person to ignorantly
rant about how they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Why would you want to pray in a store to begin with? And that's
definitely quite brazen to suggest that there is only "one real God."
Yes, maybe to you there's only one real deity, but other folks may
pray to another deity (or even Satan), multiple gods, or no gods at
all. That's pretty much rounding up every single belief system that is
not based on one god and saying they're all meaningless in
comparison.

I cannot tell from the letter if you're just walking around the store
praying to yourself or trying to "save" people...odds are if you
weren't allowed to pray in the store, you were probably irritating
other customers by foisting your beliefs on them. Most people do not
want to be coaxed into a religion or told how they're going to burn in
hell forever if they don't convert.

Personally, I would not go into a store that allowed preachy religious
fanatics to harass me about joining their faith. I'm sure the store
does not want to drive off folks like its Pagan, Muslim or atheist
customers (just to name a few).

Eva, please.

I hope that you realize that not everyone believes in what you believe
in. That is the REAL world. Please adapt to it quickly...

or pray for your discovery of this reality a lot faster.

Target is NOT public property. Target is private property, owned and
operated by Target. One of their very staunch rules is "No
soliciting." They have every right to tell you to leave and not harass
guests. I am a religious person, but even I would get annoyed by
someone praying over me or demanding that I pray while I'm working.
You know when I pray? In private and during Mass.

Maybe you should pay attention to Matthew, Chapter 6:

"Take care! Don't do your good deeds publicly, to be admired, because
then you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.

2 When you give a gift to someone in need, don't shout about it as the
hypocrites do--blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call
attention to their acts of charity! I assure you, they have received
all the reward they will ever get.

3 But when you give to someone, don't tell your left hand what your
right hand is doing.

4 Give your gifts in secret, and your Father, who knows all secrets,
will reward you.

5 "And now about prayer. When you pray, don't be like the hypocrites
who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues
where everyone can see them. I assure you, that is all the reward they
will ever get.

6 But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you,
and pray to your Father secretly. Then your Father, who knows all
secrets, will reward you.

7 "When you pray, don't babble on and on as people of other religions
do. They think their prayers are answered only by repeating their
words again and again.

8 Don't be like them, because your Father knows exactly what you need
even before you ask him!"

Tis is the devil's world and the devil hates HIM, so says God.

The Ammendment was put into place because 9 years after the King James
Bible was released, England saw that God's word was contrary to what
the Catholic Church was pushing and were killed for saying so.

They set out for the new world to worship Him according to His word
(The Pilgrims) and didn't want the Vatican to govern them as they have
always been about domination.

But as people want to do that which seems right in their own eyes,
the likes of ACLU minded people perverted all that.
The fact that the Catholic church is Democrats should tell people
alot.
Democrats support gay marriage and abortion while God's UNCHANGING
word is against them.

Read Matthew 24.Jesus says this is all coming but be not troubled.

Hang on,He will call us out one day and the rest will stand before Him
in judgement.

I appreciate you standing but you will get nothing but hatred from the
baby killing LEFT.
They are "LOST" and only jesus can unblind them.

The devil is preaching tolerance while God still demands obedience and
believeing in God does not make you a Christian.The devil believes in
God.You must surrender to Christ.

Pray without ceasing and bless those that persecute you for His
namesake.

Wow - where do I begin with this one....

First of all, we have freedom of religion in this country. THAT
INCLUDES ATHEISTS AND AGNOSTICS! What you want to do at your local
Target would be viewed as VERY OFFENSIVE by anybody who was an atheist
or an agnostic. I guarantee that store has at least one or two
employees who fall into these camps.

Secondly, we have a WONDERFUL concept here in the U.S. called
"separation of church and state". It exists so we don't end up with a
modified version of Nazi Germany in our own country - where everyone
is forced to believe in a particular religion and, those that don't,
are rounded up in cattle cars and sent off to camps.

I'm guessing you're Christian (in fact, it's more than a guess. I'd
bet a large sum of money on you being Christian and I'm sure I'd
win....this is due to the fact that other religions don't seem to
gripe about the problems mentioned in your PlanetFeedback letter).
Would you like it if we mandated that Judaism was the only acceptable
religion and prayer had to be Jewish prayer?

I'm guessing you wouldn't like that, right?

Now you know how I'd feel - as an atheist - hearing you mention God,
Jesus and prayer at my local Target store when I was just hoping to do
some secular shopping in peace.

Maybe I'm missing something, bit I think you guys are making a lot of
assumptions that I don't necessarily see. I see nowhere in the letter
where she said they were praying at people or disrupting people from
their shopping, I think some of you are inferring that based on your
preconceived opinions about Christians. I suppose Target wouldn't
tell them this for no reason, but I'd like to know more about what
happened before jumping to conclusions. If they were being forceful
and praying at people, then I agree Target was right to say something.
If they were simply praying to themselves, I don't know. Does Target
really want to be on record as telling people not to pray while 80% of
Americans profess to be Christians? Where does my freedom of religion
end and your right not to be offended begin? I don't know what the
answer is.

That all said, as a Christian I don't necessarily think this is an
effective strategy. If you want to pray for people, you can do so
silently to yourself, just you and God. He hears you just the same
:-)

I'm gotten "street preachers" kicked out of the parking lot of my
local Walgreens.

So, like you walked up into a Target and just started randomly praying
for people??

Troll alert.

Penn Jillette may have said it best when someone asked him why he is
an atheist.

Penn said, "I'm an atheist because there is no god."

but I would be annoyed. (I am not religious, for the record.)

praying to yourself is one thing
but if you're openly praying at someone, you have to keep in mind that
person may not want it.

therefore if the person doesn't want it, then you could be harassing
them - especially if they ask you to stop.


I would recommend, pray if you want to, but if you do it silently,
they cannot stop you.

I was at Target yesterday, in the customer service line. I was
praying out loud they would accept my return without a receipt. I
couldn't believe it when they told me to keep my mouth shut.
Ridiculous.

I believe God is WAY too powerful to be "taken out" of anywhere. As
another poster said, kids are allowed to pray in schools. Schools are
not however allowed to force anyone to pray.

However, we as Christians are told not to pray on street corners, but
alone in our closets. Matthew 6:5-6

"5"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 men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
6But 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."

So, I have to wonder why you feel a need to pray in Target for people
who may not want you to, when you can pray to yourself and the Bible
says God will see and hear.

I am curious, are all employees allowed time out to pray if they wish?
I do know the Muslim pray times are less flexible then some other
religions.

And what you are talking about isn't the same thing. You seem to be
saying you should be allowed to interrupt people who are actively
working vs. employees taking time to pray on their own.

All in all, is what you are doing really good witnessing?

You're totally able to pray for other people. In your own home and
church, on your own time.

First of all, no one has taken prayer out of school. Any child in a
public school is legally able to pray, so long as he/she does not
disturb others while doing so.

Second, someone who tries to bless me and pray for me as I'm running
errands is going to get an earful of words they've probably never
heard before, involving extremely foul language and wishes of very bad
things to happen to them.

Third, Jews and Muslims pray to the same god Christians do.

Fourth, it's pretty obvious that you were bothering people enough that
store employees (most likely Christian, given the demographics of
white-bread, high-income Minnetonka) had to tell you to knock it off.

FWIW, I'll be at Target tonight in West St. Paul, about 45 minutes
from Minnetonka, right around 5 p.m.