Um...please stop preaching... your scaring away my demons

[SuperB]

I wouldn't have a problem with all of the devout ranting 'The Bible is the law of God!' people if they actually took their own advice and followed all the laws in the Bible! I want to see some of them get proactive and start stoning their kids to death for being disobedient and killing people for working on the Sabbath!

For the Christian, it's the new law you follow, not the old. That means there is no "stoning" and in fact, very little of the old testament decrees are re-iterated in the new testament including keeping the "sabbath". And then there's the fact that everyone, despite what the preacher claims on Sunday morning, will have their own interpretation of the Bible. For example, cussing. I'm of the opinion that "jerk" is as bad as "a-hole" or "bitch". All such insults are man made and it says, "Let your yes be yes and your no be no so that you don't sin". If someone wants to criticize me for claiming to be a Christian but not always showing it, all I have to say is people are human and the criticizer is not perfect either.
I've yet to have a customer do that to me on a Sunday but I think I'd have to point out their hypocricy if they did.

[Jinxy]

The top 5

1) While working at BK a milkshake winged at my head by a woman who didn't want a "witch" (her words not mine) waiting on her.

2) Still at BK at least 7 complaints with one going all the way to corporate about my pentagram. I had a manager tell me wicca was just something I'd made up but the DM knew the right answer and all that time at the labor board went for nothing.

3) While at one of my many mall sentences, a older man who thought it was his personal duty to "save" me and he was there everyday for 3 week solid that I worked and finally was asked by security to leave and not come back.

4) I was hit with a purse for being a heathen by an 89 year old woman in the same mall when I was 16. I pressed charges and she went to court. She called the judge a very bad name due to him being Jewish and she made the old bat serve 30 days.

5) While at my dream job (comic shop manager) was told that D&D, RPG's, and CCG's were responsible for my being wiccan and I should go find a real job and a nice man and when I got older I'd get it. Funny thing is I was raised wiccan, and was in my late 20's at the time. Just figured it meant I'd look great at 40 and told the git to leave. Then it turned into, "But you're a girl,...you can't be a manager"

Jinxy who needs to get back to the sewing room

[Sharsarannon]

5) While at my dream job (comic shop manager) was told that D&D, RPG's, and CCG's were responsible for my being wiccan ...

*dies rotfl*

I had a bunch of friends in High School of many different creeds and faiths, and we always compared notes on how much we had in common. My best friends were "Mormon", non-denom Christian, Wiccan, agnostic, formerly-catholic Zen, raised-jewish, and atheist. We defended each other when someone with an attitude gave one of us crap for being different.

At my last job we were told we were not allowed to wear any jewelry with any kind of religious symbolism whatsoever. Apparently they can tell us this because they pay us to be there... But they never did bust me for mine!

I sometimes wear a ring that has the letters CTR on it, which stand for Choose The Right. It's not doctrinally religious so much as a memo to act according to my professed beliefs, but a lot of people in my church have one like it- they're just popular. Customers would sometimes notice it and ask me about it. I was lucky enough never to get crap for it though.

I also have a pendant on a short choker type chain that I wear with Celtic knotwork that to me has deep spiritual meaning about eternity and interconnectedness,
and a pendant shaped like a silver sword with personal spiritual relevance.
None of these things were blatantly "religious" though, so I didn't get in trouble.

Although I do think the sword pendant scared a few more timid customers off!

[SuperB]

I find it completely spineless when employees are told they can't wear emblems of their faith. I work part time at a small post office and if anyone complains about me wearing a cross I was told I could be told not to wear it. I guarantee a fight if it ever happens.

[air914]

Wow Jinxy, you've ran into all the nuts, haven't you? I can't believe you've had all that happen to you.

I personally like "witches" I always felt it's better to be on their good side than their bad side Plus, they're usually really cool people. I loved talking/hanging out with a girl in high school that for some reason (someone started a rumor her freshman year of highschool) was called "a witch". I don't know if she was really Wiccan or not, but she was called a witch by people at school and I was told to "stay away from her, she's weird". She was an amazing artist and a cool person - wish we had stayed in touch.

[Pagan]

I was raised as a christian, however I stopped believing in god etc about the same time as I stopped believing in fairies and unicorns.

Uh-oh, now the fairies are mad!

I always felt it's better to be on their good side than their bad side Plus, they're usually really cool people. I loved talking/hanging out with a girl in high school that for some reason (someone started a rumor her freshman year of highschool) was called "a witch". I don't know if she was really Wiccan or not, but she was called a witch by people at school and I was told to "stay away from her, she's weird".

And now you've just stumbled across our secret. Witches, Wiccans, Pagans in general are just like everyone else! Honestly, I'm Pagan and some of the worst SCs I've run into are people who claim they're Wiccan. No, you're just a run of the mill asshat who likes pretending....and you're still a Sucky Customer. Now, get the hell away from me!

[Gravekeeper]

Oooh, poser "wiccans". They're a whole new category of suck onto themselves too.

Watching 3 episodes of Charmed then wearing a black blouse does not a witch make. ;p

[LonelyStr8manInSF]

I've found being an atheist to be quite boring...I honestly would LIKE to believe in something greater than myself, but I have yet to find any universal truth greater than one uttered by my father: "90% of people are basically stupid." At least that one helps explain the teeming hordes of SCs.

I do think I may make a 3-headed purple yak statue, however, and start praying to Yakkety-Yak. Who knows, maybe it will answer my prayers....no one else has, to date.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I've considered Satanism, and also being a solipsist.

[Andara Bledin]

I used to have a friend who declared himself a "god" and started up an informal thing we referred to as The Church of Little Cat.

If you did him a decent favor, he'd make you a saint.

I was Saint Far Too F***ing Finicky Feline, the patron saint of all things furry and stupid. Then we joked that covered my then-husband on both counts.

We also had Saint Randy as a Tom and Saint Ferret (Which is Almost as Good as a Cat).

I'm an unadorned Christian. I believe in God and Christ and don't really go in for all the trappnigs most of the organized religions drape around it.

^-.-^

[Strange Magic]

I have started down a path I have to tread very carefully on that pretty much involves the rejection of religion. I'm reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and God is NOT Great (How Religion poisons Everything) by Christopher Hitchens and both are presenting the views that athiests should not be ashamed at all and should be prepared to stand up for thier beleifs just as much as any believer.
I can get all up in arms about the whole deal but the only thing I'd ask of anybody is that they repect my right to be religionless as I'd respect thier right to follow whatever diety they wanna.

I'm happy to see the folks here pretty much professing the tolerance route but I think that open mindedness is rare outside of the confines of some limited areas in the world.

[Andara Bledin]

For whatever reason, those who are tolerant seem to be much less likely to band together than those who want everybody else to be forced to conform to their standards. *shrug*

I guess it's just one of the many symptoms of stick-up-ass syndrome.

^-.-^

[air914]

I'm happy to see the folks here pretty much professing the tolerance route but I think that open mindedness is rare outside of the confines of some limited areas in the world.

Has anyone ever heard that quote "don't be so open minded your brains fall out?" I always thought that was funny

I think being open minded and being tolerant are different... you can be convicted in your beliefs and still be tolerant of others.... just some more of my

[tollbaby]

one word...

WINTER-EEN-MAS!!!!!!

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[Tria]

MY WEEKEND SOCIAL LIFE where I pretend to be a VAMPIRE!

I'm too nice, really.

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