but god

[Bonnie Bitch]

so has anyone else encountered the well meaning religous person...who desperatly wants to save your soul...

Oh, dear Thor! More times than I can remember!

At a symphony concert, one of my colleagues introduced me to her next-door neighbor. This rude sack of crap couldn't even manage a hello. First words out of her mouth were, "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior?"
I gave the old gal a curious look and said, "Well, I did, but sadly I had to fire him for gross incompetence and failure to report for work." My colleague was ROTFL-her-AO. The old gal -- I thought she was gonna stroke out on the spot.

[Bonnie Bitch]

Me:*pulls out pentacle* I'm wiccan
Ow:I am sorry, but I can't hire satanists

Satanists? I really hate it when people say that it is satan worshipping. Its not! The library was about the same. Thankfully, the guy who owns the resturant I work at now is open minded and didn't really care what I believe in as long as I can carry food on a platter. But still, c'mon!

Just out of curiosity, did you contact a lawyer about suing the F out of the sucky restaurant owner? Refusing employment based on creed violates several federal laws.
In fact, it is illegal to even ask about a potential employee's religion during the interview. That's grounds for a big ole lawsuit.
Double ditto for the library, which is a federal outlet. The bitch/bastard doing the interviews at the library should have known better.

[Bonnie Bitch]

If that law is almost 43 years old, why are people still violating it is my question?

And the answer to that one is:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil in America is for good men to do nothing." -- attributed to Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

what he really said was:

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle, " Edmund Burke, 1729-1797 (from "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents").

[tendomentis]

In the various jobs I've held in my life, religion has always come up at some point.

It's tricky for me, because while I am saved, I also practice buddhist meditation practices, and my view on the world and the Bible is quite different from "Christians", so I can't really quantify my beliefs with a label.

Instead I live by my favorite line of Shakespeare...
"For truth hath far better deeds than words to grace it."

I LIVE my beliefs everyday, I don't talk about them. In fact, I believe that trying to quantify my beliefs in words reduces the meaning of what I believe. If what I believe is right and good and helpful, then how I show that in my life will do more good than EVER trying to ram it down another person's throat.