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?

I don't know if i am discriminating against christians. Usually i am verry relaxed about what people believe in and what they do.
But christian friends i have tend to force their religion on you. And that while they are not really that christian at all.
They don't go to church except on perhaps christmas or on funerals.

I am with a scouts group that does weekly meetings with children.
When our group does a yearly mass, they expect everyone to be their. And when they pray before dinner, they expect everyone to pray along.
I made it clear that i will never set foot in a church, and i certainly will not pray. But some don't seem to understand, especially the most liberal among them, they seem to think it is fine to go along and do it for the "show" of it all. They think its stupid that i make such a big point of it. Just go to the church they say, just do the prayers.
This is the general stance among the members of our group.

I find it even more dificult when children say to me they aren't christian, since that is a ever growing trend these days i must gladly say.
Because, i cannot answer these children truthfully i feel. It would get me in a lot of trouble if i told them to just not come to our mass. I am not going, why should i oblige them to come. I just say i cannot answer that question, and point them to another leader in the group. Hopefully their parents have some common sence and don't make them go.
I probably should have just that kid to stay home, that i am not a christian either, and i wouldn't go into a church even if it meant my death. But it would probably get me a lot of trouble in the group if i said that.

Heh, its stupid that i should adjust to them. And i wont, i will never say a christian prayer, and i will never set foot in any church.
Its stupid of them to ask that of me, i even read the new testament about 3 or 4 times, they probably never fully read it.