Ummm, Parent of DS Friend told me I was using religious propaganda on their son...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, here's what I think:

1. We are non-religious. If I learned that my child had been shown Veggie Tales on a playdate, I would be upset. I don't like being proselytized, and I especially don't want my child being proselytized.
2. However, my reaction would be, "Since we are non-religious, do you think that in future you could not show my child Veggie Tales on playdates?", rather than "That's it, you horrible person, no playdates ever again!".

If you apologized sincerely, then I think that the next step is up to her, to accept your apology or not.

This.

I am not familiar w Veggie Tales but right in "About Us" on their web site they are very clear that it is faith-based, "...helping children to discover that God made them special..."

There is nothing wrong with that or that opinion but it is clearly a religiously oriented product and as a non-religious Judeo-Christian-Secular Humanist-Zen Buddhist-Agnostic (ie follow the Golden Rule), I would not be thrilled if it was shown to my kids either. But I wouldn't flip out on someone the way this awful rude nutjob did to the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a loon! I'm sorry you were hurt by her crazy overreaction. Personally I'd just move on and find other friends.

This! She sounds crazy. Even if veggie tales is mildly christian in some way (I think), who cares. It's not like satanism or witchcraft. I would not be offended if my DD (we are SDA and Catholic) watched some mildly jewish, muslim, or buddhist cartoon. ITS A FREAKING CARTOON! Anyone that opposed to any religion IMO is psycho and I would be glad that weirdo is out of your life. She is obviously a very hard core left wing loon so far you can't even reach her loon universe. You don't need people like that in your life. And even if she wasn't overtly crazy, what are this bitch's values? Where do they come from? I bet she has none, hence the poor treatment of you, a fellow human being with a little one. So forget her.

As a Wiccan, I'm completely offended by this slur. Whenever young Christian children come to my house for playdates, I like to read them all sorts of pagan and witchcraft stories. Fortunately, only a few weirdoes have objected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a loon! I'm sorry you were hurt by her crazy overreaction. Personally I'd just move on and find other friends.

This! She sounds crazy. Even if veggie tales is mildly christian in some way (I think), who cares. It's not like satanism or witchcraft. I would not be offended if my DD (we are SDA and Catholic) watched some mildly jewish, muslim, or buddhist cartoon. ITS A FREAKING CARTOON! Anyone that opposed to any religion IMO is psycho and I would be glad that weirdo is out of your life. She is obviously a very hard core left wing loon so far you can't even reach her loon universe. You don't need people like that in your life. And even if she wasn't overtly crazy, what are this bitch's values? Where do they come from? I bet she has none, hence the poor treatment of you, a fellow human being with a little one. So forget her.

As a Wiccan, I'm completely offended by this slur. Whenever young Christian children come to my house for playdates, I like to read them all sorts of pagan and witchcraft stories. Fortunately, only a few weirdoes have objected.

OP here.

Sadly, Wicca and Paganism are some very very misunderstood religions. I have family who is Wiccan, and it's one of the few religions I can tolerate.

[Anonymous]

sounds like the bitch needs Jesus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She sounds like a loon! I'm sorry you were hurt by her crazy overreaction. Personally I'd just move on and find other friends.

This! She sounds crazy. Even if veggie tales is mildly christian in some way (I think), who cares. It's not like satanism or witchcraft. I would not be offended if my DD (we are SDA and Catholic) watched some mildly jewish, muslim, or buddhist cartoon. ITS A FREAKING CARTOON! Anyone that opposed to any religion IMO is psycho and I would be glad that weirdo is out of your life. She is obviously a very hard core left wing loon so far you can't even reach her loon universe. You don't need people like that in your life. And even if she wasn't overtly crazy, what are this bitch's values? Where do they come from? I bet she has none, hence the poor treatment of you, a fellow human being with a little one. So forget her.

As a Wiccan, I'm completely offended by this slur. Whenever young Christian children come to my house for playdates, I like to read them all sorts of pagan and witchcraft stories. Fortunately, only a few weirdoes have objected.

[Anonymous]

I'm Jewish ,and wouldn't be thrilled if I knew my kids watched VeggieTales at someone's house. I've seen some episodes and read about it, and I'm not crazy about the religious slant either. However I can't imagine ever saying anything to a parent about this -- I'd just keep it to myself and perhaps be a little less likely to want to send my kid over there, or, if I could work up the nerve, I'd tell the parent that I'm not entirely comfortable with the show and ask if they could show something else next time. The mom's reaction seems really extreme and perhaps it's best that it turned out this way, though sad for your son. I think it's fine to write her one more time and explain your position, but if she remains upset, I'd just let it go and not take it personally. SOme people find or create conflict wherever they go, and if it wasn't this with her, it was eventually going to be something else, based on how she reacted.