When my Pastor, who I loved dearly wanted to massage my upper thigh region and suggested it would be ok if I got an erection. JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!!!

Aaah no!!! I am good, don't NEED a massage and I ain't even plannin on sportin a woody up in here. Left that church not long after that f*cked up experience.

This one time, I had to share a planet with them. Fuckin sucked.

Not my experience, but my great grandparents were 1st generation Irish Catholics. My grandma's brother died in a car crash when he was 18. Someone from the church came to tell my grieving great grandmother that her son had died because she was a bad Christian. I think that was when my grandma was done. I never heard the story about how my great grandma took it. Needless to say, my family never went to church.

Can someone tell me exactly what the "Holy Spirit" is? Thanks.

Stay strong ! You've pulled back the curtain of hypocrisy, and you KNOW, inside (that little voice), when something is wrong !

I've never had a bad experience with religious people. In my experience, they haven't been unkind just misguided. Generally, I just roll my eyes at them.

Nothing too drastic, but a very religious person that I work with and am friendly with asked me once in front of others why I was volunteering at a soup kitchen (serving dinner) and a homeless shelter (tutoring children) run by the Catholic church when I'm "not even a Christian." I was embarrassed, and it made me feel bad about myself -- though I'm not really sure why, because I'm SURE that I'm not Christian! It's something I won't forget.

They instill insanity in individuals that cause horrendous statistics of domestic violence, which the family courts ignore. As a group they cause endless wars over territory and the control of nations. The struggle between religion and government is a cold war that takes no prisoners.

I've worked at several women's clinics, as a medically-trained assistant, and as an escort.
The people who would come out regularly to protest were some of the worst examples of religious fanatics I've had the displeasure to witness. The attacks were unrelenting and surprisingly personal in their nature. Some of these people even brought their children with them, and had their kids holding signs and shouting vile slogans. These people all professed their belief in their god.

Breach of trust, justified by their beliefs. Many experiences...

My uncle was a Pastor, he raped me and my siblings repeatedly over many years ( about a dozen) He is a pedophile.
I went to the police; no one believed that he would be like that.
forward 30 years - he was run out of town - BUT just moved to someplace else he can go volunteer at the YMCA!

My worst "in-person" experience occurred while I myself was still religious. While in high school, I invited a friend to come to the church youth activities with me. The Young Women's leader saw her as an outsider from whom she needed to protect her "flock" because she was an openly butch lesbian. This leader and the bishop spoke with her and told her that she would not be welcome back at church unless she made changes to her dress and behavior. She then told me that she wasn't interested in attending a church where she wasn't accepted for who she was. While this was directed at her rather than myself, I was emotionally crushed.

Online, I once received a legitimate death threat from someone who admitted to having killed his brother for being gay.

It would be a long story to tell, so I will just say it was when my parents shunned me

Baptism through confirmation. Sunday school. Asking questions and seeing the horrified looks on the nun's faces. Seeing the priest red with rage that I should ask such things.

When I was told the difference between god & the devil was that god could read my mind & the devil could not.

I did not. Raised them as atheists.

Being bored to tears.

A trip to Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1839 Mormons bought the small town of Commerce and it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith, who led the Latter Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape violence and conflict with the state government in Missouri.

It was like something from "Stepford Wives" or "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Very creepy people wearing period clothes and giving tours of the restored settlement.

Most of the experiences I've had with religious people have been just fine. And that goes for all religions. The ones who grate on my nerves are the fanatics. And to be perfectly honest, most of those idiots can be found in christianity and islam. The sand religions. Never had a problem with people who practice asiatic based religious belief systems.

Having to listen to their hatred and violent outburst and not being able to do something about it

My mother, a southern baptist christian, stealing and destroying my hard back copy of god is not Great when I was 46 years old. And pretty much disowned me over my choice not to believe in dogmatic false belief systems.

This is an interesting question with many possible answers: My own unpleasant first experience was when a crazy theist really got mad at me for not buying his "Jesus is god!" assertion. He spent a great deal of time Yelling "But what about the flowers?" inches from my face. All I could do was smile and I laugh at him as he was not at all rational and receptive to any argument. The other experience significantly more sad that comes to mind is when I demolished the foundation of a theists' belief structure. I became annoyed at this guy for cornering me at the YMCA locker room while I was trying to get ready for the shower with his exuberant "Did you know Jesus is the truth and there can only be one truth and that truth is Jesus because there can only be one truth!" I decided I did not like this so I spent a great deal of time demonstrating his assertion was baseless. and carefully disassembling his argument. At first it was fun - watching his red happy face fade to a stone grey sullen expression. But I really hurt him for several month after whenever he would see me at the "Y" he would, at varying levels, assume a defensive crouched position and make the sound of a dog that had been beaten. I really do feel sorry for the guy as he was a nice person that (I found this out later) had suffered a stroke, lost his wife, house, and good paying job. Haven't seen him in years as he no longer goes to the YMCA.

ProLife and Antigay organizations engaging in a 7 year hatecrime.

Being married to one! Five five years were good, last four years were unbelievable. I had to leave just to keep my sanity.

Okay it wasn't my worse experience but it was kinda funny. I kid you not when my friend found out her response was, "So you think this all just magically got here?"...just what? No? That's not how this works...