Religious Discrimination Options

Please keep this respectful. Any slurs or attacks against other members because of their beliefs will be deleted.

I'm curious to see what members have to say. In my life time I've been riddiculed by my family, who are Catholic both on my mom and dad's side. I've been picked on in grade school too, thats not surprising growing up in a small town with small minded people. But I've never really enountered discrimination in a work environment or otherwise had my rights overtly broken. In college, well mine at least, people either don't really care or are openly curious. I guess there have been a few religious nuts I've banged heads with, but nothing that really impeded my rights.

Now I do hold a certain level of resentment for religious fanatics of any sort, be they Evangelicals, Jehova's Witnesses, KKK, Pagan knights or cults that I percieve as dangerous. My main resentment towards Christianity in general stems from the idea of conversion. I do not think it is right for any religion to pressure or coerce any other denomination to convert. In prision I did not openly discuss my belief either. But in that kind of environment thats a good choice regardless of one's beliefs. I'm also bitter from just the general "holier than thou" attitude I've encountered in grade school and day to day life. All these aspects have formed a kind of prejudice in me against Christians. Not because all Christians are closeminded fanatics, but because a few roten apples spoiled my pie, so to speak.

For me, this manifests as a messure of mis-trust and disdain. I don't often talk about my beliefs with strangers because I don't want to be oustrasized in my community. And yet a portion of me finds pleasure in pissing off fundies. I've been known to challenge the various Mormons or whoever who periodically come to my front door and try to tell me I'm going to hell and need to accept Christ into my heart, under their banner no doubt.

Of course I do try to be respectful, usually, in these "debates" that get stired up. And I always respect people's beliefs in day to day life.

So where have you, if ever, experienced prejudice or discrimination because of your beliefs?

Do you hold any prejudice against a particular religion?

Yes to being discriminated against, and no to discriminatating against others.


There have been several times when i've done or said something, and being a christian, had people openly tell me "thats not very christian like". I found it very odd that these people, who had never studied christian dogma, would tell me what the right way to act would be according to my beliefs.

I've also been shunned for being a witch by several people in my church. They never openly tell me they hate me, or anything mean, its just a general feeling i get whenever im around them. It always feels as if they dont want me around, and dont like me being around. Several of them wont talk to me, or if they do, it's never for very long and mostly just ridiculous small talk when they used to confide in me alot with very personal issues.

But other than that, most of my friends are very tolerant of my beliefs and practices.

As for my family.....most of them have no idea what i do or believe, and i really dont care to go through the process of explaining it all to them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dots.gif)