[rant; religion] {faith is both a prison and an open hand}

[kaberett]

Content notes: evangelism, mention of non-current suicidality.

Proposition: I should be able to walk into my workplace without being fucking evangelised at. I expect it from the Jehovah's Witnesses (misc) and the Mormons (home of Creepy Sexy Jesus across the way from work); I don't bloody want it inside my department building.

It's the Christian Union's ~themed week~, you see, and it's entirely possible that I'd object less if it weren't such trite, shame-based theology. "I'm not that bad, so why do I need Jesus?" Oh, fuck off.

And fuck off even more for your reaction to "I'm queer, trans, and ex-Catholic; you don't want me" being "actually, yes we do". At which point (late, stressed, underslept) I snapped back that they didn't want me in any meaningful way that wouldn't render me suicidal, all while continuing to walk away, and I kind of hope it ruined her day, to be honest, because she fucking oughtn't get away with making my work space hostile to me and thinking that doing so is ~purely and wholly loving~, because it goddamn isn't.

(See, this is why I fall down on the Captain Awkward maxim that it's a potential red flag if people aren't kind and decent to everyone around them, because fuck that.)

Comments

Re: content note: Christian Union bullshit, threats of violence, homophobia

[withagreatlove]

Uhhh nope, I didn't know that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that kaberett should argue with them, I just meant to be supportive, is all.

Wow. Just wow.

Re: content note: Christian Union bullshit, threats of violence, homophobia

[kaberett]

I'd guessed at the lack of context and understood you to be being supportive :-) <3

[liv]

I could see you were being supportive, but also that you don't know how bad the affiliated Christian Unions are. (It's not every single university in Britain, by any means, but they tend to target the big or prestigious ones.) I bet your theological comebacks would be really useful for less culty proselytizing attempts, though.