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've had a few nasty run-ins with the xtian faith; the first Is my mother. She keeps a tight grip on where I go and when to keep me from attempting magick. The second was a moderate guy with a gold crucifix and a silver version whom I met at camp last summer. He looked quite like Jim Carrey and was very skilled in fights. I had a crush on him for a while, 'til his girlfriend and I compared notes on his behavior; noting the scary energy coming out of his eyes at times. In our last days together, he "confessed" and told me his profession was killing demons. At the time I had no idea about the occult, and I wished for knowledge from an experienced source. I asked plenty of questions like how to recognize demons (which I now consider utter bullshit) and the info seemed to be strange feeling.
Now that I think about it, the density of the room seemed to change when he brought some teeth out of his bag.
He said that His real name was Matthew Sivertson and was responsible for slaying 20-30 "demons" in the Kamloops area of BC, and showed us the sharpened bottom of the gold crucifix as "proof"
Ironically, This guy unwittingly introduced me to ritual magick. He told me that with a ouija board and a drop of blood I could curse a dwelling forever.
Either this guy was a few tools short of a tool box, or for real and killing our kind.
This guy creeps me out everytime I think about him, thank goodness I didn't tell him my beliefs!

Has anyone else met this guy? I just cannot bear to think what he's doing to our fellows out there.