Mark Gagnon

this type of American.

You know what I mean?

But then you felt like they're weird or you're like, oh, I'm weird.

I thought they were weird.

And then we would pray before we eat.

And then they pray before dinner and they're like, Lord Jesus, just be with us.

And I'm Catholic.

I'm like, this is not how we pray.

So the whole experience, I was like, I feel like an alien.

How did you guys pray?

Like the Catholic way, you know?

I mean, I guess, yeah, you're Jewish, which I think is an element of this.

But, you know, you'd say, you know, sign the cross, and then it would be a sort of a ritualized prayer, you know?

Like, bless us, our Father, for these, thy gifts that we're about to receive from thy bounty.

And like it's a specific like before dinner prayer.

But it was ritualized and everyone knew it and they would recite it together.

But then I go to my evangelical friend's house and they're just like, Lord, bless this food and be with us.

And Timmy has a broken leg and heal his leg and just let him feel your presence.

I think with Protestantism, if I may, you can experience divinity more quickly.

So like Sufi Muslims have a similar thing where Sufism is kind of like a more mystical version of Islam.