Religion poisons everything, Thanskgiving Edition

[Angrboda]

This thread is for the purpose of sharing your personal stories of how religion and/or the religious have innocently or not, conspired to poison what might otherwise have been a fine day of celebration.

I'll start with my first experience of it below.

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Well, this day appears to have begun its steadfast march towards its ultimate goal of sliding off into the abyss.


On Thanksgiving Day, the Meals-On-Wheels program, which delivers daily meals to the elderly and others of need, delivers a special Thanksgiving meal. I wasn't going to accept it at first, having plans to eat with my family, but I let the woman on the phone talk me into it. (It wasn't all that hard.)

So Thanksgiving arrives, I'm just out of the shower, toweling off, and the phone rings. I let the machine get it, and the gentleman leaves the message that this is so and so, and I have your meal, and would you please call me back. And then silence. No phone number. So I'm pondering whether to dial up the psychic hotline to attempt to divine this chaps phone number, and as I'm finishing drying off, he calls again. So I rush to the phone, buzz him in and throw the towel in the bathroom. I throw on some clothes quickly and wait for him to arrive at the door, which he does in due time.

So I sign for the meal and wish him well and close the door. I go to look in the paper bag he handed me to see what might require refrigeration and what would not, and there on top of everything else is this paperback book. "Do I Know God? Finding Certainty In Life's Most Important Relationship" by Tullian Tchividjian. Great. In addition to being burdened with the callous insensitivity of well-meaning Christians, I face the inevitable feeling that I need to do something about this after the holiday. I'm just sure that this 'something' will involve harsh language. Perhaps a lot of it.


Why couldn't they just be human beings for once? Fucking Christians. God I hate them.

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[Minimalist]

Their god tells them to be dicks.

There is no avoiding it so just indulge yourself and tell them off.

[SpecUVdust]

The idea that people still praise an "event" that took place at the beginning of a 500+ yr strategic crusade of genocide of native Americans with the blood all over the hands of CHRISTIANITY... Is justification enough of the evil and malicious intent of CHRISTIANITY. So, yes. Christianity did poison this "day."

[downbeatplumb]

Any excuse for a slap up binge.

[Aractus]

So I sign for the meal and wish him well and close the door. I go to look in the paper bag he handed me to see what might require refrigeration and what would not, and there on top of everything else is this paperback book. "Do I Know God? Finding Certainty In Life's Most Important Relationship" by Tullian Tchividjian. Great. In addition to being burdened with the callous insensitivity of well-meaning Christians, I face the inevitable feeling that I need to do something about this after the holiday. I'm just sure that this 'something' will involve harsh language. Perhaps a lot of it.

Why couldn't they just be human beings for once? Fucking Christians. God I hate them.

So let me get this straight - they're providing you with a service, and they had the audacity to give you a piece of literature that you could choose to read or throw away? Those bastards, who do they think they are! That would be like if a business person you were doing business with gave you their business card, how awful.

[Zen Badger]

That would be like if a business person you were doing business with gave you their business card, how awful.

Actually it's not.

[Cato]

So let me get this straight - they're providing you with a service, and they had the audacity to give you a piece of literature that you could choose to read or throw away? Those bastards, who do they think they are! That would be like if a business person you were doing business with gave you their business card, how awful.

Bullshit. You would have been closer to the truth if you had replaced the business card with an advertisement that stated "if you choose not to continue exclusive use of our service you will be placed in an incinerator".

[Anomalocaris]

So let me get this straight - they're providing you with a service, and they had the audacity to give you a piece of literature that you could choose to read or throw away? Those bastards, who do they think they are! That would be like if a business person you were doing business with gave you their business card, how awful.

A service is what the serviced wants, not what the "servicer" thinks will get the servicer to heaven faster inspite of what the serviced may or may not want.

So cut the bullshit. These are smarmy, supercilious, utterly and delusionalaly self-serving, intrusive, presumptious bastard vermins of the type to be driven as far from civilized human settlements as possible.

[Aractus]

Actually it's not.

I get it now, it's like leaving a takeaway menu with the other services provided by the business. How awful!

[Angrboda]

Actually it's not.

I get it now, it's like leaving a takeaway menu with the other services provided by the business. How awful!

Our Mission is to provide national leadership to end senior hunger.

On September 1, 2009, the MOWAA Board of Directors approved a new vision for the Meals On Wheels Association of America: to end senior hunger by 2020. In order to turn this 2020 vision into a reality, we have started a national movement to end senior hunger by 2020: Our goal is to recruit 6 million people who are willing to stand up and pledge to do what it takes to end senior hunger.

Senior hunger in America is a monumental problem. The latest research reveals 8.3 million seniors in the United States faced the threat of hunger. Looking at the numbers, it is easy to become discouraged. Looking at the people whom the numbers represent, however, impels us to action and helps develop our plan. Because of the magnitude of the problem, we know that we cannot solve it overnight or with a single project or initiative. MOWAA's four pillars outlines our comprehensive approach to ending senior hunger.

— Meals On Wheels Association of America, Mission Statement

Which part of that mission do you believe pertains to providing religious services and proselytization, Daniel?