PS. I was touched by his noodly appendage for a short time- but I didn't choose the Who life, the Who life grabbed my hand and whispered 'run!' and I never looked back.
I am an atheist and it irritates me whenever I'm invited to join a religion. I think the whole world would be a lot better off without religion but that being said; it should be allowed to exist, religion should not be outlawed, if you wanna believe that crazy stuff then by all means. The problem starts when you start using religious ideology to affect policy.
wow, literally the same thing I'd have posted. I only find it to be an annoyance when I'm working and people insist on handing me those little books. Once the guy who handed it to me said "it's okay, before I found god I was a crack head too" Pretty sure he was implying I was a crack head.
Haha, I dont' let ANYONE had me anything religious. I know it's impolite not to take something handed to you, but it's also impolite to foist your religion on other people.
I wouldn't call that impolite, I mean they aren't forcing you to read the thing, or keep it, or even take it. They are just offering you something that they thought you might want to have a look at, the people who hand out the things are only trying to spread the word, like God wants Christians to do. But I guess it all boils down to personal opinion as to what is impolite or not in the end. We don't all have the same culture. I'm assuming the little books you are talking about are Gideons here. However, I don't think it was nice of they guy to call you a Crackhead Echo, he probably didn't mean it in a malicious way but I still agree that he probably should have thought before he spoke. Also @Zoe, probably one is an older thread that died out, if it got revived then it can be merged b an admin or Mod.
I don't really care about the comment itself. I care that he assumes that finding Jesus would save me from being one if I was. I only get annoyed when they persist on me taking those little books. If I say no they just continue until I take one.
It always annoys me when people walk up to you or your house and say "Blah blah church etc." If they want to join your denomination, they'll find out how to do it themselves. Constant pestering is simply rude.
I do agree with that, there is a certain line between shoving it down peoples throats and making a simple request.
I love it when they hand me those books. In all seriousness, I am using two of them stacked on top of each other as a doorstop even as I type this. You can find a use for anything, man.
As a Catholic who lives in a predominantly Protestant area of Belfast, I've had more than my fair share of religious bigotry. My first encounter was when I was about 5 and I went to a kids park and walked up to a couple of boys aged about 11-12 and asked if I could play with them. My dad who was present at the time recollects that I told them my name, Dominic, which is a catholic name, which lead to them showering me with sectarian abuse and threatening me. On the walk home, rocks were thrown at me and my dad. He told me several years later that one of those rocks struck him in the head and left a scar that's there to this day. Following that, my house had rocks thrown at it and, according to my dad, we had bullets put through the letterbox, presumably by the UVF who ran the area. It was only after a stroke of luck in which my dad happened to become friendly with the non-sectarian son of a high ranking UVF man that the attacks stopped. We have never had intimidation of that sort since, but it is not entirely gone. Every year, particularly on the 12th July, an entirely protestant group called the Orange Order parades around the city, many of them showing sectarian abuse as they pass predominantly catholic areas. On the 12th a large bonfire is lit, upon which an Irish tricolour is usually placed along with pictures of the pope and republican politicians and Volunteers. During the Troubles, things were even worse with countless catholics having been burnt out of their homes by protestant loyalists. The UVF and UDA used the troubles as an excuse to kill as many catholics as they could. This is not to say that the blame rests entirely on protestants. On a number of occasions, though a number far smaller, catholic republicans have also shown sectarian abuse and hatred. Sometimes even resulting in the deaths of innocent people, such as the "Catholic Reaction Force". I am in no way a bigot and I have numerous protestant friends. I simply must say that as someone who lives in what is quite possibly the last religious warzone in all of Europe, I have had many encounters with religious hatred and have grown to feel utter disgust towards most organised religion of any sort. No matter what anyone says, I believe that religion simply breeds hatred.
hi, I`m catholic. and I don`t really have any problem with guys oif other religion. where I am from. most of the people are catholic or evangelist. like catholic I believe in god and in science. catholics use science to understand the work of god, for example: how the universe was created or the evolution of the human been, etc. and I have friends who are evangelist. (evangelist tends to believe more in the bibble and bieleve everything that it says (I`m not saying it in a bad way)) I never met a christian or a buddhist, protestant, etc. but I wouldn`t mind to meet one.
Is it weird if I consider my god Slenderman because hes unkillable and he powerful so to me hes my god plus hes interesting to learn about.
