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 i have been discriminated against - my swords and rit knives were taken by the cops and checked for blood (this was 30-ish years ago and world away from the paradigm i have now - amazing to look back isn't it - of couse they found nothing and returned them but kept the long pipe as there were 'too many unidentifiable resins', it was just burdock)

i was snubbed in school as being 'wednesday' from the addams family - beaten up and principals office for praying aloud in gaelic before a test, not wearing proper skirts (i always wore those lovely divided riding skirts - love to have some of those now!) and having burned matches and pebbles in my pockets

i really have no malice toward the stupid befuddled emotional-fodder-cattle of the masses that don't see beyond their nose - they are what they are brainwashed by their vampire leaders to be (always just short of happiness so the leaders get their bellies filled - and always as far away from mutiny as possible to keep the leaders in power) - if we can chip away at it here and there (and i try my best to do so, in an unobtrusive way) and get them to awaken to the real reality then so much the better

otherwise, i have, like the song says, "save yourself a penny for the ferryman and let them suffer" attitude for the unreachable ones

You guys do bring up a valid point about how CHristians make them not in their fold feel very uncomfortable. I really dont have a specific story, but Im sure we all know this feeling. Like if we are at a function where they say a prayer (which is ALWAYS from the bible or bible related). If you dont participate you are labeled a Satanist or Devil Worshipper or just a flat out weirdo. Also, regarding the worst time of the year which I just survived--Christmas. If you dont celebrate X-mas or get into the "spirit" (spirit= spending $$ on BS that mofo's usually dont deserve, singing lame songs, watching lame movies, wearing lame sweaters, setting up a fukin glam tree, wasting ur time putting up lites that will have to be taken down--etc...) you are labeled a scrooge or whatever. NO, I just hate this holiday and time of the year--when everyone is fake friendly! Had to bring that up--Im sure everyone has an issue w/ Christmas as well.....Hanakkah suks ass too! the whole month of December blows! Laterz......

jeepers! just make it your own - the solstice (what the christians are gibbering about rising again) is in december, and the evergreen tree is the promise of reincarnation and the presents are the morel mushrooms that grow under it, the glam balls are the wish-spells the people hang on the tree for the gods to see and deliver (hang a model car and see what happens), the feast is the feast and the singing and dancing (if your relatives dance!) is the remnant of the old fertility rites

every bit of the old ways have been usurped by the 'christian' church (who wouldn't know the christ if he walked through their door) - the catholics are possibly the worst - praying to diana - oops mother mary - and stealing my sun symbols for their crackers and wine - wearing the hat of dagon and abusing the incense - and covering it all in anunaki gold to await the return of their master so they can deliver it

i've been told to never come back to a local baptist church (frends took me for a recital by one of their kids) for doing the five point star at the end of the lord's prayer (which is what it is if these idiots would do the research) - thine (point up), kingdom, power, glory. for ever, and ever - he thought it was masonry (maybe it is, i'm not allowed to be a mason cause i'm a woman!)- truly the blind leading the blind

enough - they are just brainwashed

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every bit of the old ways have been usurped by the 'christian' church (who wouldn't know the christ if he walked through their door) - the catholics are possibly the worst - praying to diana - oops mother mary - and stealing my sun symbols for their crackers and wine - wearing the hat of dagon and abusing the incense - and covering it all in anunaki gold to await the return of their master so they can deliver it.

Hehe. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

This reminds me of an old editorial cartoon I saw once. Christ was knocking at the door of a church, and a guy in a suit was opening the door for him. He told Christ, "Wait, you want to help the poor, feed the hungry, and take care of the needy? We don't have room for liberals in the Christian Coalition!" or something along those lines.

It's a shame I can't remember who drew it or what paper it was in, because it was really funny and I think the lot of you would enjoy it.