I hate that shit. I will find someone else.

When people try and get you to believe in what they believe regardless of how they do it it's always annoying

Put me on edge just makes me think that if anything went wrong they would blame it on god and not take responsibility to make it right .

What they are doing is playing to their crowd. You always give your business to one of 'your kind'. It's an unwritten law. In essence, it amounts to a completely legitimate unethical practice in advertising at the least and a gross religious promotional practice at the extreme.

Let's be honest here, if I knew that one bakery was a fundamentalist fish supporter and another some three blocks away was run by an in the shadows baby eater, I would probably go the extra three blocks to give them my business. The difference is in the percentage and visual identification between the two. If 75% of the community ride dinosaurs in their off time, then dinosaur riders are going to get 75% (or close to it -- probably more) of the business in town. By the same token, if someone puts a recognizable symbol of godlessness in their window, they've automatically limited their business.

So, does it irritate me? Hell yes. Sometimes it goes as far as to piss me off. Do I let them know? That depends on how heinous the presentation. Normally, it doesn't warrant any harangue from me and I simply do what I can to avoid giving them my business and to the extent I'm able, steer it to those of similar rational thought.

It irritates me because I feel like everyone just assumes everyone else is Christian and it frustrates me. Yeah, have pride in your faith, but this feels more like it's being forced down my throat.

Imagine how much business I'd get if I had upside down crosses, pentagrams, and rams skulls on my walls at work, and hail Satan at the end of my mission statement

Well, in my case I was referred to a doctor, whose website was very Christian centric. I probably shouldn’t say this, but it was a psychiatrist that I was seeing. Long story short, the referring doctor thinks my memory is going because of depression. In any case the website gave me the impression that they use Christian beliefs to help heal depression. After reading that I went back to the referring doctor and asked her to refer me to someone else.

I don’t have a problem with anyone who is religious until they insist on pushing it on me. If a doctor or his/her website gives me the impression that they are Christian or any other religion, that’s an immediate red flag for me. You don’t need to advertise your religion for your business.

would the religious find it annoying if i'd have sex in public? ... just because i KNOW of the healing powers of sex?

It's even weirder than I thought it could be. Do you think all the fracquakes are releasing some sort of crazy gas or what? Looking on the bright side, they aren't zombies yet. Hang in there!

I take it as a warning.

That's bizarre, and must be off-putting for some patients. Even at the vets - after all, everyone knows all cats are Jewish, which is why you never see pork catfood in the shops.

So not jealous! Here in Scotland you'd probably get laughed at, it would be seen as silly and irrelevant (appropriate for religion ) because it has nothing to do with dentistry. Sometimes I feel like I just wanna rescue all of you stateside folks when I hear these sorts of stories

Yes it would irritate me ... for a few seconds and then I would simply continue looking for a new dentist.

Always annoying when people wrap themselves in the flag or use religion as a marketing ploy.

Irritates the shit out of me. I don't think I'd go to any dentist, medical doctor, etc. if they advertised like that, unless there are none that don't advertise.

It annoys the tar out of me, as does putting Christian music on the radio. I have had restaurants do that in my hometown, as well as printing out and taping those awful, bible-thumpy, facebook posts to the front counter. We even have a car wash whose exterior message board is always a bible quote. Businesses that pander to any faith in particular lose my business.

It happens here, too, and not just medical and dental offices. It irks me, and I invariably find myself patronizing other places.

I'd feel awfully uncomfortable with that level of religiosity and on-the-sleeve expression.

That is a red flag for me.

I don't care if they advertise their religion honestly, but I do Westin why they are doing it. I assume they think it will bring them more business, ether because it will bring others if the faith or it will cause others to think they are trustworthy. That last part is scary to me since I don't think there is a correlation between religion and trustworthynesd, but many people think there is. I get worried they are exploiting that fact.

It is annoying. It perpetuates the idea that only religious people are trustworthy and honest.

My first impulse is that they are doing that for social signaling / marketing purposes. In your area, which I believe is part of the Bible Belt, or at least a concentration of fundamentalist organizations, they probably have to attract clients who want a "good Christian dentist" or whatever. Those clients think such a provider will be more competent, or more plugged into god's guidance / grace / leadership, plus, they are more likely to trust a member of their own tribe.

I would tend to ignore it, sometimes with an internal eye-roll, so long as they don't try to proselytize you or in some other way disrespect you.

As a long-time consultant, one of our Prime Dictums in getting an understanding of some new situation we're in, is: "things are the way they are because they got that way". Meaning in this case, they are including their religious beliefs in their CV because there's a demand for it, and it does them more good than harm. You can bet they would NOT be doing that up here in the Northeast, apart maybe from some rural areas.

Welcome to Oklahoma my dear. Imagine how I feel at the courthouse when the attorneys and judges wear their religious beliefs on their chests basically as a badge of acceptance. I feel your pain daily.

There are a million and one things to get irritated about in life, this should not be one of them. Just satisfy yourself in knowing how hypocritical they are by capitalising on their "faith."

I wouldn't care so long as they didn't treat me differently. i don't think your personal beliefs should be on any professional literature though.

Very irritating! Ugh!

It is irritating but I find I have to shrug it off to some degree. This is their way of saying "trust me because I am a good Christian and no, I am not going to hide behind my religion while I rip you off!"