Georgiansilver wrote:"wyrdolafr had you read my last post in context .... as a reply to MaineDog, you might well have understood why I made those statements. I suggest you read it through again"

Actually some of the error wasn't so much misunderstanding your post, but phrasing my own badly. When I said you weren't clear on something, I really meant that the bible wasn't too clear, as it seems to be saying "pray alone and don't get too smug and 'hey, guys! Look at me, praying to God!'" about it all as well as it's a Christians duty to pray together when they get together and pray in public for people &c.

I suppose the Christian take on this is 'anytime's a good time to pray' or something rather than one or the other? ;)

The other point I made and worded badly was that if Jesus is on record as "praying alone at times", then how do you know he wasn't praying for the likes of the blind man or the lame man? Whilst I worded my last post very badly, my point still stands: if he prayed alone or in a private room, then how do you know what or what he wasn't praying about? You don't actually know one way or another.