Are we loosing religious family values? like praying during a meal or even sitting together at the table?

Answer 1

My family eats together. We have no need for religion. And yet we still have family values.

Answer 2

My family and I still pray before a meal both in the home and in public. We also sit together at the supper table most nights.

However, society in general is loosing family values. After all, society thinks it's okay for a family to be whatever each person wants it to be. How are we supposed to have specific values with each doing their own thing?

Answer 3

We are loosing it very fast to tight schedules. Praying during a meal and sitting together at the table is one of those values that keep family well-knitted together but it is a pity how fast we are losing that value nowadays.

Answer 4

Yes we loosing assuming religious family values, praying during a meal is not a value if it was we should also pray when we take a dump, being thankful you went to work to eat is not a value eating is a natural function. Yes it is nice to sit at the table with your family if you are willing to keep the subject low profile.

Answer 5

Yes we are. To often families are part during meal time. Most of the time I am at work when my kids eat, but when I am home and we cook together, we sit and pray together. Over the meal we often talk about how our day went.

Answer 6

Depends. Are you willing to stand up. I was married aover a year ago. I pray over all my meals. My wife and I both said that we will sit down and have a family meal together each night.

If you are single. Do compromise on this issue. Ask God to bring someone in your life that will home to some tradional values.

Answer 7

Yes, unfortunately, it seems to me that we are. Even in my family, we are religious but we still do not sit down together to eat. Everyone sort of just does their own thing. I miss the time when we used to eat meals together, praying before the meal. In fact, I've gotten out of the habit of praying before a meal, because it was so much a part of a family meal, that I forget to do it when I'm just by myself. Thanks for the reminder.

Answer 8

yes.
take the movie, RV for example. even though I know its a movie, it PORTRAYS real life. the fatherr IMs the kids when dinner is ready, but when they finally come down they eat silently and quickly.
so many people want their "own" time that they dont have time for anything else. or their friends might be taking up the whole day.
whatever it is, it IS true and it IS obvious that we are slowly, but steadily, losing overall family time together.
my family all sit together at the table, TV turned off, of course, and we talk about the day's hapennings and stuff, so when my frineds come to my house, they're like, "you do this everyday?" and i say "yeah."

hope this helps!

Answer 9

Sitting together at the Table with a family should not be just religious. People wonder why there's so much divorce, fighting, workaholic parents, and depression amongst families these days, its because they don't understand each other, and they never try to.

Answer 10

We pray before meals, not during. It is important in our house and visitors have to submit to it too. We also consider it important to sit down together for meals, even when it means missing part of our favourite TV programme.

I'm glad that it is still de rigueur at formal dinners to say grace before everyone sits down to eat. How long, I wonder, will this continue?

Answer 11

Sitting together is not a religious value. It's a family value, and many families still find it important.

Personally, I find it embarrassing when humans stop before eating to talk to an invisible person in their imagination.