Meeting them!

Their sanctimonious arrogance.

The time I got home from work one day and my fiancé was on the phone with his mom. I had just walked through the door and he was trying to put me on the phone with her from trying to be nice. All I was wanting to do was take off my shoes, put up my feet and relax. Anyway, when she realized she thought she was going to be talking to me, abruptly she was telling him that she had to go and was in a hurry to get off the phone cause she was convinced I was trying to talk to her, which I had no interest in doing so, anyway. Religious people are my enemy for the most part. Come to find out later, she was against me cause I didn’t give my life to the Lord and told my fiancé that she didn’t want to talk to me until I gave my life to the Lord.

My worst experience was being under my mothers religious control within the brethren church. a perfect setting to become another weirdo..................... which I didn't !!!

My brother became trapped into believing this nonsense which eventually drove him into committing suicide.

Thankfully nothing truly terrible because of where I live. The worst is just your typical fruitless debates over matters of science and faith. I had the misfortune of getting into some awful and stupid debate about evolution and moral relativism with my former supervisor, the profound ignorance made me want to smack him with my shovel. He wasn't "religious" per say...."spiritual" I guess? Believed in god and the bible sorta, but doesn't practice the faith.

It was the typical bad talking points you'd hear from dumb people, but the aspect that just got on my nerves is the unwillingness to listen and let me inch in more than a single sentence. Dude was a walking dunning kruger about many things, but this was some of the worst.

I don't think I had any really bad ones. I do think I asked too many questions during my time in. I taxed the poor youth group ladies so with the questions that once I was pointed at sternly and told not to ask anymore questions. It's funny how much they try to teach when they can't seem to answer the questions themselves.

I was going/still am going through a bout of depression, I think. It's undecided. Anyhow, I was talking to one of my good friends from college about it and she suggests Jesus. I explain to her why that doesn't/won't work for me. We then start discussing the intricacies of my non-belief and she says, "I don't see how people who don't believe in God can believe in anything bigger than themselves. How can they ever do anything for anybody other than themselves". (Insert pretty much every other cliche).

Long story short, this person was my GOOD friend for 4.5 years, and she still had the balls to say that to me. As if over that time period I never once was anything but a hedonist. I just couldn't believe it.

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.

I was dating a Catholic. He was in the midst of a divorce and had 3 young daughters. One night the priest of the church his family attended (not him, he was a "fallen Catholic" ) came to our house. He wanted my boyfriend to sign papers having the marriage annulled so his ex could remarry in the church. We asked him exactly what that meant. The priest told us that he had to deny that the marriage had ever been consummated. My boyfriend looked at his daughters that were sitting in the same room and said, "so you are asking me to say I am not their father." The priest just stood there for a minute and said "I guess I am." He was immediately removed from our home.

I was dating a Catholic. He was in the midst of a divorce and had 3 young daughters. One night the priest of the church his family attended (not him, he was a "fallen Catholic" ) came to our house. He wanted my boyfriend to sign papers having the marriage annulled so his ex could remarry in the church. We asked him exactly what that meant. The priest told us that he had to deny that the marriage had ever been consummated. My boyfriend looked at his daughters that were sitting in the same room and said, "so you are asking me to say I am not their father." The priest just stood there for a minute and said "I guess I am." He was immediately removed from our home.

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

This is something I posted about previously. A girl whom I loved dearly broke off with me because of her religion. It has been fifty years and I still miss her.

Just knowing they exist and to what extremes their beliefs can produce is an on going bad experience. Thats about as optimistic as I can get.

The only ones that have bothered me are the influx of flat-earthers that are spreading misinformation across the internet like some kind of digital crusade. I spent a year correcting their memes and answering their questions only to find that almost all of them are just contrarians trying to make the bible more scientifically accurate by inventing their own science, and possessed a level of arrogance which deserves a medical term of its own. I've now left all the groups I was in and blocked 200+ of them who persistently invade the NASA page and YouTube, and am enjoying the peace and quiet.

think I have said this one before I was about 15 years old, first saturday job, train up to town got the wrong train back and was stuck in a carriage that was bursting to the seams with a bible puncher telling me he was going to pray for my soul-doh! And I had to wait an hour for the train back to Lee Green.

I went to a private, Catholic school from 1st grade through 11th grade. By the age of 8 I was already a non believer. I kept to myself in order to self-protect. But once I was out of that school I was in trouble using drugs and hanging out with bad company. Playing R&R saved my life. I loved the music so much that it kept me going until the present. I even got to beat the H/S bully who reminds me of Donald Trump.

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.

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

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.

I haven't had anything really terrible. When I was 25 I was engaged.The wedding was coming up and at the last minute he 'couldn't go through with it'. I was crushed, but stayed with him. A long time family friend who was very religious (and whose husband was chronically unfaithful -- he tried to seduce me at my sister's rehearsal dinner) invited me to dinner. When I asked if I could bring my ex-fiance with me she said 'no' she didn't allow cruel, immoral people in their home.I was floored but I'm glad I didn't say to her the things that came to mind. Needless to say I never went to their home again

Starting a sort of New Age group in early 90s with another and realising what you could get people to do, and even worse when i suggested it was all nonsense they wouldn't believe me and told me how wrong I was! Major wake up call!

I hate people saying they are going to pray for me! if I wanted that I would ask them to do the honours but its too presumptive.

Having listen how my experience would be similar theirs if I drank the same kool-aid