AIBU to question praying and sleeping in the library kids area?

Me not believing in something doesn’t trump anyone else’s right to have faith

..but does someone’s faith trump someone else’s right to live without having to be involved in the nonsense unless they choose to? For example a mother and children visiting a children’s area in a library.

I personally don’t believe in it, but beliefs vary - just like recollections.

Me not believing in something doesn’t trump anyone else’s right to have faith, and it’s incredibly disrespectful to use the terms you have to dismiss their belief system.

I think that’s how most sensible atheists thinks. “Not for me, but you do you.”

You seem to think that me disagreeing with you is me not getting it. You have explained your view, I have a different view.
I have worked in the public sector for years. Council libraries are, and have been for years now, multi use buildings where adults are encouraged to go, as safe spaces, warm spaces, to be open to all. They are very much the unofficial alternative to day shelters, places for lonely people to go, places for the homeless or mentally ill to go. As I mentioned earlier ours has CAB, housing and banking services all within the library space. If for example a Muslim man was homeless, unless there is a mosque in walking distance, a library would be one of the few places I could think of that they could actually go to. It would have been preferable not to use the kids section, but if the room was pretty much empty then I can't see an issue with it.

Mumsnet seems to have this nostalgic idea that libraries are full of people reading. They still lend books but public libraries are in the main essentially community centres, outside of the flagship city centre venues.

But you think it though don’t you?

For someone so forceful and righteous in their language and views, you don’t really seem to understand your own ideology very clearly. Is it ‘the religions where you get chocolate are okay’?

A grown man lays down in the middle of a kids reading area and whether or not he should be there is actually up for discussion? Give your heads a wobble and use some common sense to move him on immediately!

Of course I’m teaching my children to be intolerant of people attempting to force them out of their space in the name magical beings. No I haven’t banned Christmas, I haven’t actually banned any religious related activities anywhere believe it or not!

A grown man lays down in the middle of a kids reading area and whether or not he should be there is actually up for discussion? Give your heads a wobble and use some common sense to move him on immediately!

It would have been YABU for me.

You could have clicked YANBU, and yet… here we are!

Agreed. Thinly veiled bigotry.

I’m a card carrying atheist, couldn’t be less interested in religion.

But I would never have told my Muslim colleague he was praying to a sky fairy, because basic decency exists.

Look, I have no truck with organised religion but I am at least respectful in the language I use about other people’s faith. You’ve done the ‘invisible sky fairy’ shtick in every post, it’s boringly repetitive, and it’s not big or clever. I hope you’re not teaching your children to be so rude and intolerant to other members of society. Have you banned Christmas in your house too? Do your kids get an Easter egg?

Look, I have no truck with organised religion but I am at least respectful in the language I use about other people’s faith. You’ve done the ‘invisible sky fairy’ shtick in every post, it’s boringly repetitive, and it’s not big or clever. I hope you’re not teaching your children to be so rude and intolerant to other members of society. Have you banned Christmas in your house too? Do your kids get an Easter egg?

Is it worth any huge detailed interrogation? Also no.

Just so you know, you could have just clicked YANBU

My point was there were no children there at that time of day so the space was used for something else.
Had a parent with the children come in they could still access the space - they might have just needed to wait a few minutes until a conversation was finished.

She decided to leave because a random man was attempting to communicate with an invisible omnipotent being on the floor of the children’s area,

I'm out of this thread.
Bye.
It's got far to bigoted and anti man for me.

The potential risk is they can't get copies of books for their children.
I've never been in a library where there isn't staff members there who can see what's happening and keeping an eye on things.

FFS.....I said it was a maybe scenario.
The children's section could have been empty and was known to always be empty at that particular time of the day.
So he nipped in to use it.

That too. Who knows?
Like I said. We don't know. The OP didn't stop to find out.
She just decided to go all Daily Mail.

The potential risk is they can't get copies of books for their children.
I've never been in a library where there isn't staff members there who can see what's happening and keeping an eye on things.

"Oh please" what?
My made up scenario is no more unlikely than the OP's (probably made up) scenario.
We don't know do we?
Because the OP made the decision to leave the library.

Or if he was a secret agent and he was actually decoding a top secret message from a Russian double agent written underneath the children’s play mat.

This is getting more and more far fetched.

Why on earth would a librarian use the children’s area for his prayers? Seriously??