"You believe in a god? You have my DEEPEST sympathy."

It never happened to me. One of my great good fortunes, is to live in a country where religion is only considered to be respectable as a below surface part of life. And public mentioning of it is actually looked on as bad manners.

I enjoy being the non-believer. Most of my coworkers are young, and we live in the bible belt. They reverently place bibles and crosses where they belong and feel miserable about it. I tell them to give said objects to me, and I toss them across the room into the appropriate boxes

One of my neighbors is a religious zealot...he stated one time he would make me "find Jesus...if he had to beat me senseless to do it"...dude has some serious issues. He is a spooky, jumpy, little turd who loves tRUMP. he used to be a manager at a Sony Plant that has since folded...can not imagine what it would have been like working under him...smfh

That's why I work for myself, and even have a contract for my clients that when they work with me it will be a secular experience and not a worship service. I'm so glad I don't have to listen to any proselytizing from anyone. A choice I made and seem to have a fair amount of respect for speaking my mind in a gentle sort of way, so as not to ruffle any feathers.

I guess trying to bridge the gap so the religious folks who attend my services go home with a better understanding of what a humanistic outlook is, so perhaps not so judgmental to others going forward.

You can’t escape the religious. Try wearing noise canceling headphones. I live out in the country outside of Syracuse, NY. I thought I had escaped the religious. Then my wife converted to reform Judaism. I just make myself scarce.

I had a similar discussion recently...they brought up their God bs and when it came around to me I told them they were just as athiest as I was. I just didn't believe in just one more god than they do... this is now my favorite response when they start preaching. I refuse to keep silent and listen to their nonsense.

Yeah, good luck and have fun....btw, you really need to get over your fear of the necessity of a hot cup of coffee in the morning..try a medium roast Jamaican Blue Mountain..just sayin

Not in a nation heavily dominated by a particular religion. No, you can't. Do you celebrate Xmas? How about Easter or Passover? The casual dropping of religious commentary is a big alarm that causes many to start getting noisier against the trend. That's where we are, today, but I think the response's strategy sucks.

I love to converse with them. Three favorites ways to get them really riled up are; 1. Penal substitution atonement. The fun begins with whether or not they know what it is. 2. Jannes and Jambres as an example of oral tradition to directly dispute Sola Scriptura. 3. And my most favorite is when I go off on a polygamist tangent and ask them whether theIr faith Is strong enough to embrace multiple wives. It’s a riot!

By the way, “ ONE DAMN DAY WHERE I CAN BE RELIGIOUS-JARGON FREE?” Doesn’t the damn in one damn day kind of fall into the category of religious jargon?

We are surrounded, hang in there. Try to have fun with it if you can.

This is easy. Depending on where you live this is a fundalist Christian nation. If worse it's Christian nationalist. I never ever speak about my beliefs with anyone I don't know really well. It's inviting trouble. It's not needed. We are not changing any minds. They have to come to it on their own.

Step back.

Why oh why are you annoying shoppers minding their own business? get help!

Give them a taste of their own medicine, read up on Zeus, tell them he is your god, wear their asses down with facts about Zeus, how he does not claim to be perfect, bla, bla, bla, or like I do sometimes, I'll tell them that my god is a purple and white polka-dotted winged elephant that flies around the planet Saturn, with a unicorn stuffed up its ass, which is a story no less ridiculous than their bull shit story.

I hear you completely but most religions take a couple of different approaches to this. They are told by their scriptures to try and win you over, plus most of them think you simply never heard their gospel or version of it. None of them ever think you might have once been a believer but now have stopped. These people also do not get it when you claim there is no evidence to believe. They then start quoting their scriptures as evidence when in fact that is only the claim. They just do not get it.

Taking this all back a bit people need to explore when we got the scriptures we know today, how we got them and what year was this decided. It's all not what most people think.

They just want to burden you with what they feel you should be burden with what they were indoctrinated!!!