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How many Christians pray without interlacing their fingers?
by Hamuko 7y ago
How many Christians pray without interlacing their fingers?
- fyfy18 7y agoI was taught at a Christian school (in England) to pray like this.
- cheesysam 7y agoMe too. I remember being told by a rather stuffy teacher that if you pointed your fingers to the sky, that the prayer would shoot up to heaven! If you interlaced your fingers it would 'bleughhh not go anywhere!'
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoI was raised Protestant, and there I was taught that the folded hands were to keep you from fidgeting. I don't get the pointing at the heavens thing, I mean Jesus himself mentioned to basically be humble, not like those guys on the street corners making a bit show of praying.
- mhd 7y agoPeople who got slapped on their fingers by Nuns for doing that? (Because it's too lazy and you don't have your fingers raised to the Lord, or because that's "the Protestant" way etc.) I don't think there's a literal "canonical" position, but if you look at old art, the folded, non-interlaced position is definitely more common, with Dürer's depiction being already pretty late to the party. To add Abrahamic confusion to it all, I think there's also some Rabbinical argument against it (or was it qabbalistic?). Anyways, we're all wearing masks now anyway, so the appropriate gestures would be the Kuji-kiri.
- dgellow 7y agoIt's maybe an European thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_Hands_(D%C3%BCrer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praying_Hands_(D%C3%BCrer)