(October 9, 2019 at 8:41 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: So due to a recent career opportunity I was flown out of state... Some issue at the hotel ended up having me room with another one of the job candidates, though he was going for a different position. No issue because the room was really nice and we essentially had our own rooms except for the common areas like the bathroom and kitchenette.
Overall, I have to be honest - the guy was an uptight asshole. A lot of his views were really concerning... he believed things like:
-One needs to be religious, specifically Christian, to be a good person
-Tattoos make someone immoral and are "against god"
-Violent games and music cause real life violence
-Sagging your pants makes you a thug or a hoodlum (apparently it's not just a fashion thing)
-Black people shouldn't like or listen to rap music
-Gospel music is the only acceptable music to listen to
-One should surround themselves with only religious thoughts, materials and people
The list goes on and on. Of course, he slowly eased me into a lot of these topics, and while I actually agreed with him on a lot of different topics at first (we talked a lot in those five days), but any time the subject approached anything concerning religion or morality it took a hard turn for the worst.
It makes me wonder how many religious individuals are just like this... He didn't really seem like a bad guy, but he was just a very weird, uptight individual with a lot of strange ideas. I didn't necessarily dislike him, but I can't say I'd care to sit down and have coffee with the guy.
Anyone else have experiences like this?
Christians are a strange breed.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.