RE: Religious bumper stickers and other annoying religious actions. (rant, sorta)
May 8, 2015 at 10:47 am
(May 7, 2015 at 1:46 pm)DIRTY_DEEDS_93 Wrote: Anybody else get super annoyed at people with bumper stickers saying "Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly!" or "Jesus loves you"? Or people going door to door going through nonsense as to why you should join their cult-like religion? Or public prayers at sporting events?No to the first two, or to the public prayers at sporting events. Yes, to people doing door to door, though that has more to do with the direct interruption of my time than by what is being offered. Religion annoys me very little, and my only concerns are ever about what effect it can have on people and societies, mostly via attempts at legislating behavior or education. Aside from that, the behaviors that annoy me would do so even if they were about something else. For example, my sister posts a lot of religious stuff on her Facebook, and I either ignore or block most of it. But I do the same for conspiracy theory stuff (posted by a friend) or political stuff (posted by another friend).
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