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Presumptive at mom's rehab....
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Presumptive at mom's rehab....
Nobody is or should ask for the forced end of religion, but damn it, don't fucking presume what a patient believes or wants. So today my mom was out of her room, I went out for lunch, come back to find to bible magazines on her table. I know my mom, if she wants something she will ask for it. That shit pisses me off. Besides, it is rehab, not a church.
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Throw them in the trash?
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(August 23, 2016 at 5:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Throw them in the trash?

No, they were not new so I am assuming they are taken back after reading, I simply took them to the activity room. If it is free shit they don't intend on taking back I would, but without knowing I don't do that. But yea, would still feel like throwing it out.
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Print out some atheist literature and leave it lying around here and there.
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(August 23, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Print out some atheist literature and leave it lying around here and there.

That's a fantastic idea!
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(August 23, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Little lunch Wrote: Print out some atheist literature and leave it lying around here and there.

Not while my mom is staying there.
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(August 23, 2016 at 4:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nobody is or should ask for the forced end of religion, but damn it, don't fucking presume what a patient believes or wants. So today my mom was out of her room, I went out for lunch, come back to find to bible magazines on her table. I know my mom, if she wants something she will ask for it. That shit pisses me off. Besides, it is rehab, not a church.

I'm sure your main concern now is probably getting your mom better but you might have said something to the rehab facility staff. If it's not a religiously affiliated facility, they need to be aware that patients and their families aren't interested in religious proselytizing while they're recovering.

My daughter came home from public school one day in first grade with a tote bag with an evangelist church's logo on it. After I took a deep breath and stepped away from the email before hitting "send", I thought I would just keep close eye and see if this was a pattern or some random event. We never got anything religious after that so maybe it was some staff member who had some excess bags and gave them away.
But at the rehab facility, it's likely a pattern of proselytizing.

The last few hotels I've stayed at didn't have bibles slipped into the night stands. Maybe people complained or used them as toilet paper? Whatever the reason, I'm glad not to see them anymore.
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(August 23, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Tres Leches Wrote:
(August 23, 2016 at 4:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Nobody is or should ask for the forced end of religion, but damn it, don't fucking presume what a patient believes or wants. So today my mom was out of her room, I went out for lunch, come back to find to bible magazines on her table. I know my mom, if she wants something she will ask for it. That shit pisses me off. Besides, it is rehab, not a church.

I'm sure your main concern now is probably getting your mom better but you might have said something to the rehab facility staff. If it's not a religiously affiliated facility, they need to be aware that patients and their families aren't interested in religious proselytizing while they're recovering.

My daughter came home from public school one day in first grade with a tote bag with an evangelist church's logo on it. After I took a deep breath and stepped away from the email before hitting "send", I thought I would just keep close eye and see if this was a pattern or some random event. We never got anything religious after that so maybe it was some staff member who had some excess bags and gave them away.
But at the rehab facility, it's likely a pattern of proselytizing.

The last few hotels I've stayed at didn't have bibles slipped into the night stands. Maybe people complained or used them as toilet paper? Whatever the reason, I'm glad not to see them anymore.

That might work in a blue state, but I am in the south full of religious nuts. I am not going to do anything to jeopardize her safety. She and I don't even share our social media pages, not that she uses hers much. I see her everyday and call her every day anyway. Yea but I agree, religion preys off the vulnerable.
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RE: Presumptive at mom's rehab....
Black out all of the eyes in the magazines while "doodling".
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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(August 23, 2016 at 9:32 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(August 23, 2016 at 8:35 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: I'm sure your main concern now is probably getting your mom better but you might have said something to the rehab facility staff. If it's not a religiously affiliated facility, they need to be aware that patients and their families aren't interested in religious proselytizing while they're recovering.

My daughter came home from public school one day in first grade with a tote bag with an evangelist church's logo on it. After I took a deep breath and stepped away from the email before hitting "send", I thought I would just keep close eye and see if this was a pattern or some random event. We never got anything religious after that so maybe it was some staff member who had some excess bags and gave them away.
But at the rehab facility, it's likely a pattern of proselytizing.

The last few hotels I've stayed at didn't have bibles slipped into the night stands. Maybe people complained or used them as toilet paper? Whatever the reason, I'm glad not to see them anymore.

That might work in a blue state, but I am in the south full of religious nuts. I am not going to do anything to jeopardize her safety. She and I don't even share our social media pages, not that she uses hers much. I see her everyday and call her every day anyway. Yea but I agree, religion preys off the vulnerable.

Well, you do what you need to do to help your mom get better. As I mentioned, I'm sure this is your paramount concern, as it should be. You might be surprised though - I'm sure you're not the only atheist staying under the radar in your red state.
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