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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

Potentially dangerous?

DP. You are unfamiliar with the history of violence against Jewish people?

So Jewish people have violence committed against them when they move into new homes/neighborhoods? I am aware of antisemitism and the history of the holocaust. When I was in France there was so much hatred for Jewish people I was stunned. Was this in America and what city and state did this happen?

You don't have to go all the way back to the Holocaust or all the way to France to see antisemitic violence. Pittsburgh 5 years ago, for example.

As for the example of my new neighborhood, it was in Fairfax. No violence was committed, but I was new and didn't know these people yet. You should be grateful that you don't have to worry about people's intentions when they ask if you're "Christian folks." It's a blessing not to worry that telling the truth might open you and your children up to verbal attacks, graffiti, or violence.

Near my old neighborhood in Reston 6 years ago, there was a swastika drawn on someone's house. The JCC in Fairfax has been graffitied with antisemitic symbols multiple times in the past decade. Just because you don't know these things are happening here doesn't mean they are not happening and cause for concern among your Jewish neighbors.

I don't want to give the impression that I'm living in a constant state of fear or something, but stop telling people here that their experiences aren't happening because you're not personally witnessing them.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I lived in the semi rural south, one of the first questions I was asked when meeting someone new was, "What church do you go to?" It happened so often that it was remarkable when this question wasn't asked. And I'm not lying.

When I lived in Nashville, people always asked me if I had a "church home" yet and if I answered "no," then they would invite me to visit theirs. It was meant to be welcoming and hospitable. The idea that I might not be looking for a church wasn't even in their minds.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

Yes, I got to know some of the other neighbors better after a few months and ended up asking if he was someone I needed to be worried about. They all said he's harmless He occasionally goes off his meds and gets a little loud (mostly singing classic rock songs in his driveway) and socially unfiltered, but he's never been violent.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

Maybe you’re not around enough people who are different than you that they don’t think they have to ask.

Not PP but I think this must be true, because I live in Fairfax and religion is a huge big deal to the people in my neighborhood. At school dropoff and pickup the moms stand around talking about Jesus and what VBS they are sending their kids to, all the things they are doing at their church and which one is best for what, and so on. You don't have to be explicitly asked for it to be obvious that you aren't one of them - often enough it comes up in ways that make it impossible to avoid saying.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

Yes, I got to know some of the other neighbors better after a few months and ended up asking if he was someone I needed to be worried about. They all said he's harmless He occasionally goes off his meds and gets a little loud (mostly singing classic rock songs in his driveway) and socially unfiltered, but he's never been violent.

I wonder if you live in my neighborhood. We have a neighbor just like that, too. He goes off his meds and walks around in his driveway yelling about Jesus. Everyone seems to think we should just let it be since he's "harmless," but it's pretty uncomfortable to have an insane person a few houses down shouting about Jews, when we are Jewish and I have a child who plays outside. I no longer put up a menorah at holiday time, and it just feels very wrong to me that we need to be afraid like this.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

Yes, I got to know some of the other neighbors better after a few months and ended up asking if he was someone I needed to be worried about. They all said he's harmless He occasionally goes off his meds and gets a little loud (mostly singing classic rock songs in his driveway) and socially unfiltered, but he's never been violent.

I wonder if you live in my neighborhood. We have a neighbor just like that, too. He goes off his meds and walks around in his driveway yelling about Jesus. Everyone seems to think we should just let it be since he's "harmless," but it's pretty uncomfortable to have an insane person a few houses down shouting about Jews, when we are Jewish and I have a child who plays outside. I no longer put up a menorah at holiday time, and it just feels very wrong to me that we need to be afraid like this.

My reactions:
Something should be done about the guy. He may be not cause any physical harm, but he's disturbing the peace.

You don't need to be afraid. That's a choice. If I were you, I'd put the menorah back up.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

Yes, I got to know some of the other neighbors better after a few months and ended up asking if he was someone I needed to be worried about. They all said he's harmless He occasionally goes off his meds and gets a little loud (mostly singing classic rock songs in his driveway) and socially unfiltered, but he's never been violent.

I wonder if you live in my neighborhood. We have a neighbor just like that, too. He goes off his meds and walks around in his driveway yelling about Jesus. Everyone seems to think we should just let it be since he's "harmless," but it's pretty uncomfortable to have an insane person a few houses down shouting about Jews, when we are Jewish and I have a child who plays outside. I no longer put up a menorah at holiday time, and it just feels very wrong to me that we need to be afraid like this.

My reactions:
Something should be done about the guy. He may be not cause any physical harm, but he's disturbing the peace.

You don't need to be afraid. That's a choice. If I were you, I'd put the menorah back up.

If it's my neighborhood, the police seem to be aware of him. Sometimes he gets noise complaints called on him and the police show up to talk to him. Sometimes neighbors just ask him politely to keep it quieter, especially when it's naptime or bedtime for their kids. He seems to be responsive when people are direct with him, but maybe just doesn't recognize that his behavior is disruptive or unsettling on his own.

And yes, my kids would love to see some other Hanukkah decorations sprinkled in with all the Christmas stuff. Obviously, do what makes you comfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

When I moved into my new neighborhood 2 years ago, I was outside with my kids meeting some neighbors and one asked me, "Are you Christian folks?" We are not. We're Jewish, and I said so, and the whole exchange felt very uncomfortable and, honestly, potentially dangerous. Turns out this neighbor has some mental health issues. But the question was still asked. These conversations happen in real life.

How awful. Even when I qualified as "Christian folk" I would have been appalled by this approach. So exclusionary. It's a relief to hear, though, that the neighbor had some mental health issues, as my first thought would have been "Are you Crazy??"

Yes, I got to know some of the other neighbors better after a few months and ended up asking if he was someone I needed to be worried about. They all said he's harmless He occasionally goes off his meds and gets a little loud (mostly singing classic rock songs in his driveway) and socially unfiltered, but he's never been violent.

I wonder if you live in my neighborhood. We have a neighbor just like that, too. He goes off his meds and walks around in his driveway yelling about Jesus. Everyone seems to think we should just let it be since he's "harmless," but it's pretty uncomfortable to have an insane person a few houses down shouting about Jews, when we are Jewish and I have a child who plays outside. I no longer put up a menorah at holiday time, and it just feels very wrong to me that we need to be afraid like this.

My reactions:
Something should be done about the guy. He may be not cause any physical harm, but he's disturbing the peace.

You don't need to be afraid. That's a choice. If I were you, I'd put the menorah back up.

If it's my neighborhood, the police seem to be aware of him. Sometimes he gets noise complaints called on him and the police show up to talk to him. Sometimes neighbors just ask him politely to keep it quieter, especially when it's naptime or bedtime for their kids. He seems to be responsive when people are direct with him, but maybe just doesn't recognize that his behavior is disruptive or unsettling on his own.

And yes, my kids would love to see some other Hanukkah decorations sprinkled in with all the Christmas stuff. Obviously, do what makes you comfortable.

Not the same neighborhood then, I think. The police have been called a couple of times here, but they have never shown up, and I'm pretty sure no one in the neighborhood has talked to the man directly. He's pretty scary - not a person you would approach during one of his episodes, and clearly not in a frame of mind to be reasoned with.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

It's all a vast conspiracy theory.

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

It's all a vast conspiracy theory.

And a great way to get attention

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

It's all a vast conspiracy theory.

And a great way to get attention

Oh, yes, judgment and threats. Exactly the attention everyone wants. /s

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

It's all a vast conspiracy theory.

And a great way to get attention

Right. All of these posters are in on this conspiracy theory just to get attention. :lol:

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Anonymous wrote:waiting for pp who claimed religious people have done things to affect their life to give examples…I suspect there will be no examples. The same way atheists who claim they have been attacked by religious people but don’t detail any attacks other than being asked to church by neighbors or going to youth group as a child with a classmate. Or a new neighbor asking: “What is your faith?” Which is a very ridiculous claim- nobody says “what is your faith?” That’s so embarrassingly fake the op should be ashamed! Take a creative writing class, anti-theist op.

It’s also odd and fake that children (now adults posting here) were raised in atheist families but their parents didn’t help them cope with the outside world or stop supposed religious attacks on their atheist children. So your atheist parents just let everyone attack you as a kid and never intervened or told you to speak up and tell them if an adult or another child was attacking you? Fake! If your parents let you be attacked and did nothing- they were either negligent and uncaring jerks, or you are making crap up. You spent your childhood sad and anxious and depressed because religious people were mean to you. You are now an adult with anxiety and depression because of the treatment- what did your parents do? Ignore you and your emotional and mental needs your entire childhood? Allow adults to badger and harass you, allow other kids to bully you?

I was attacked by evangelical family member when I was a kid. I’ve given details before.

Religious nutters have taken away my bodily autonomy. And they are trying to take away transgender rights as we speak.

you have not given details of your attack by an evangelical family member before. You just say that so you don’t ever have
to give details. Of course- your parents let your family member attack you and did nothing. They let their kid be attacked and completely were ok with it.

You have problems. Big ones.

My parents weren’t aware it was happening at the time. I can dig up the link if you want.

My only problems are the religious nutters trying to force their beliefs on me.

Your mom went out of town and a family who graciously looked after you wouldn’t leave you home alone while they looked after you. Your mom was lucky they took good care of her ungrateful teenager. You were not abused by anyone and have grown up into a bratty and delusional adult.

WTF are you talking about?

It was at a large family event. My parents were mingling with other people at the time.

You might want to provide the timestamp for your comment on the linked thread. Looks like PP is assuming you're the OP in that one.

That thread is hilarious. An adult atheist was taken in and cared for and fed for multiple days for free by a family who regularly attended church. Op stated her mom (no mention of dad) went out of town somewhere, no details about mom leaving for days-just that this family agreed to watch her.

Op had to attend church services/youth group with the family watching her. DESPITE her MOTHER arranging specifically for adults to care for her daughter and her mother not leaving her daughter alone, many atheists and anti-theists posted op should have been left alone at her host’s home. (Which would not be what her mother wanted, btw.)

Op is still traumatized and upset her mom let a Christian family care for her. Never mind a family took her in as her mother needed, fed and sheltered her, looked to her safety. Atheist pp discards all that and is still upset the family took her to their church.

So another pp was at a large family gathering and a relative told her she was “going to hell.” Mom and Dad of course were not around and pp didn’t tell them she was attacked verbally and condemned to hell by a family member. The atheist people posting here never told their parents about these condemnations to burn in hell, why not? You’d think if an adult at a family gathering went off on a kid and condemned them loudly to burn in hell some other adults would hear the conversation and step in, comfort the child, tell the parents, or all 3. Now pp is claiming all the adults at a large family gathering ignored a male family member yelling that a child would be condemned to hell and/or burn in hell. Really? Nobody would notice that and say anything?

That just doesn’t seem real to me. That sounds as fake as the op who said her new neighbor came to dinner and asked her “what her faith is.” Again: hello, new neighbor, good to meet you. Sure do miss my church. Anyway-what is your FAITH?” is another made up atheist troll situation.

I do believe the atheist who was dumped off on a religious family by her mom and is still traumatized by it years later is real. She doesn’t have self-awareness to realize the family that took her in only did it because they were religious and their beliefs to help and care for others were the reason they helped her and her mom. Note no atheist or anti-theist family watched her for free for days while she sulked and pouted and took up space in their home.

Yeah- the atheist whose mom needed child care and just coincidentally a religious family took her in lacks any sense of perspective or understanding of the years ago situation and is still posting about it decades later. I would hazard a guess she has never taken a kid in to provide child care when a friend or acquaintance has been in need.

NP. OP started another thread a year or so ago about the horrors of her parents leaving her with a Christian family who fed and clothed her, but undid it all by taking her to youth group instead of leaving her alone in a strange house.

Thank goodness not all atheists are drama queens with victim mentalities.

Hello, OP -- if you're still listening, thanks for starting this thread, which has been a long, winding and overall fruitful discussion among non-believers and believers.

You really fell for atheist fan fiction about being asked (and I quote) “what’s your faith?”

WTF is your problem? DP and I have been asked that many times. Even though I am atheist I don’t think it is that unusual a question in society, although I would certainly prefer that it were.

It’s the responses that matter and they vary, which is why I often say “I was raised catholic”, which when I think about it I shouldn’t have to. But it is what it is.

I live in a very urbane northeast area also, so it is not strictly a Bible Belt thing.

I don’t have a problem- but people who post fake stories certainly do.

Nobody has ever asked if I am religious or attend church. Nobody has asked me what religion I follow or what my religious faith is.

So in your daily life, you get asked repeatedly what your faith is? I don’t believe that at all. It is not a common question to ask an acquaintance what their religion is, what their salary is, or what their political views are. It’s absolutely bunk to pretend otherwise. Another multi -page fake story thread.

+1. Nobody has ever asked me, ever. Nobody talks about their faith either. I work at a very progressive organization. I suspect my boss is Christian because he brought in sweets the day before Lent, but he's never ever talked about it.

anyone who claims they are asked what religion they are is lying.

What makes you think every single one of these examples is a lie?

It's all a vast conspiracy theory.

And a great way to get attention

+2. Casting yourself as a victim is a psychological issue, but it’s common across so many groups—the aggrieved Christmas is cancelled folks, white men, and so many others. This when there are so many real victims of systemic racism etc.

I’m not sure what professional victims get out of it. Maybe a sense of identity. An excuse for their own shortcomings (look over here!). Attention for sure.