[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

[azurelunatic]

I croggled the fuck out of one in my high school when I demonstrated that I understood his message, and disagreed.

[davidgillon]

A friend and I were sat on a wall waiting for another friend a few years ago, and amused ourselves by demonstrating to the evangelist preaching next to us that the problem wasn't that Evolution isn't consistent with the Bible, but that his faith wasn't strong enough to accept the beauty of God's creation of Evolution. (We'd established that, even if relatively polite for an on the wall ranter, he was of the 'if your belief isn't entirely identical to mine you're going to Hell' variety, so I feel he had it coming).

[azurelunatic]

Indeed he did.

The ex-fiancé I no longer speak to was one of a similar sort. The Collective is safely allergic to that family of religion now.