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Dealing with unavoidable Religious Situations
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RE: Dealing with unavoidable Religious Situations
Quote:Although I have never been in that situation, my girlfriend has gigantic christian family and I went to a wedding of theirs last week. I managed to keep my mouth shut most of the time but the one situation that got under my skin is when each table had to fill in the blanks on bible verses and we got to eat in the order they were completed. Don't know the bible? Don't get to eat! I said "at my wedding I'm going to make people recite passages from Darwin's origin of species before they eat"

lol I'm sorry for that in the name of all former Christians. When I hear stories like this (or remember some of my own) I feel this need to go back in time and slap myself in the face. My sister had gospel music in her wedding. Instead of dancing you had people praying "in the spirit" and "feeling the presence of God".

Anyway, I'd just sit there. It's important for them and I love them, so why not make the effort of being polite. I'd hope they were capable of doing the same for me. It's not like I'm being unfaithful to an atheist god or something.
Pointing around: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you're cool, fuck you, I'm out!"
Half Baked

"Let the atheists come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of heathens belongs to people like these." -Saint Bacon
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