People. What rock do they crawl out from under?
To the customer that came through my line proselytizing.... You don't need to strike up such loud conversation with everyone else in line by sighing so loudly and saying what a PITY it is that kids now days are into Harry Potter and all, and how if only they knew what the bible had to say about magic and sorcery.... for crying out loud, it's a fictional kids' book. Look on the bright side -- even if YOU don't like the story because you're too damn fundamentalist to know what "fantasy" means, it's a story that's attracted a good lot of kids to reading thick books who otherwise wouldn't have gotten that kind of practice. I know. I've seen such kids toting around these massive novels, who couldn't sit through Invader Zim cartoons, and they're halfway through the books already.
When another customer points this out to you, you don't need to start your religious spiels, quoting this and that, and insisting that everyone needs to go read such and such chapters and passages because the bible is The Word and is to live by, and... blah blah blah... look, if the King James doesn't convince me, then no, I -don't- need to read some study guide book or other like you also insist. If I have to deliberately suspend disbelief to buy into a religion based on its fundamental literature, due to all its discrepancies and self-contradictions, directly translated from its earliest versions, then no, I'm not buying into it. Thanks for your concern, but how do you want to pay for your goods? Sorry, ma'am, but agreeing to go to your church isn't in my job description. Classical Utilitarianism and general skepticism has done me well so far, and all I feel for your kind of brainwashed-sounding belief is revulsion. Your religion as you preach it at my checkstand holds the same ideals which were used to justify the cruisades, the KKK, slavery in America and opposition to women's rights -- political and otherwise. Go away. Go away NOW.
When another customer points this out to you, you don't need to start your religious spiels, quoting this and that, and insisting that everyone needs to go read such and such chapters and passages because the bible is The Word and is to live by, and... blah blah blah... look, if the King James doesn't convince me, then no, I -don't- need to read some study guide book or other like you also insist. If I have to deliberately suspend disbelief to buy into a religion based on its fundamental literature, due to all its discrepancies and self-contradictions, directly translated from its earliest versions, then no, I'm not buying into it. Thanks for your concern, but how do you want to pay for your goods? Sorry, ma'am, but agreeing to go to your church isn't in my job description. Classical Utilitarianism and general skepticism has done me well so far, and all I feel for your kind of brainwashed-sounding belief is revulsion. Your religion as you preach it at my checkstand holds the same ideals which were used to justify the cruisades, the KKK, slavery in America and opposition to women's rights -- political and otherwise. Go away. Go away NOW.