Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

Trishyla

With a church less than three blocks away, they tend to come around a lot. Most of them are older Hispanic ladies. I'm usually polite, but firm in telling them I'm not interested. Usually they just leave, but one time they started walking up my driveway toward our back house, where my daughter lives. I had to be really blunt, and tell tell them to get off my property. Really ticked me off.

Wren44

DD says they use her house for training purposes. She has heard the leader say, "you can tell they're Asian by all the shoes outside". So she answers the door and is not Asian. Her husband is and the family is Buddhist.

MinusTwo

That's really funny Wren. Luckily we had a Jehovah's Witness who lives in the neighborhood & is very active in civic club matters. She told all her church members to leave our neighborhood alone. And their local church leader backed her up!!!

AliceBastable

MinusTwo

Those are unusually open-minded JWs. You're lucky. Well, except for all the Southern Baptists down there. Not sure which would be harder to put up with.

I'll leave you and everyone else with this giggle for the night.

Trishyla

👍👍👍😁 Alice.

Miriandra

(We need a laughter emoji here.)

magiclight

Yes we do

MinusTwo

Alice - YUP - all those Baptists. Southern ones at that!!! At least they don't ring doorbells.

Spookiesmom

Many years ago there was a southern Baptist church in my town. Had a big dumpster in parking lot to recycle newspapers. Homeless ppl slept in it. Pastor found out, had it removed. Did nothing to help the ppl. Nice guy, right? Gets better. About a year later, he was busted for child pornography. Fine upstanding person. 🤮🤮🤮

The property was sold, church bulldozed, is now a parking lot.

Trishyla

Good. It's being put to better use as an empty lot.

AliceBastable

magiclight

Sadly, there are too man people walking the earth today who believe that a person 2000 years ago walked with dinosaurs.

AliceBastable

This isn't as true as it was BSFB (Before Shit For Brains) era.

Trishyla

Unfortunately, it could be these days, Alice.

Betrayal

Have we taken a poll of our past Allies to see if this isn't true now? Many we met in Europe expressed sympathy that we lived in US under our present authoritarian.

Miriandra

Miriandra

Trishyla

I like that one, Miriandra. It's so true.

AliceBastable

That's when I think of a good friend of mine. She told me years ago that we should all have three "Get out of jail, get out of hell free" cards issued to us. If someone tried that circular non-logic on me, I'd have to break their nose and use up one of my cards.

Trishyla

Can I be you when I grow up, AliceBastable? I love the way you see the world. (Though I'm not planning on growing up any time soon.)

AliceBastable

Grow up? What's that? 😈

My username is a fictional character in books written in the early 20th century. Although her family was proper and conventional, Alice and her siblings had a wonderful series of adventures, and she would get into fist fights if necessary. I'm not sure what having a scrappy 10-year-old literary heroine says about me. 🤔

Trishyla

Well, from someone who always loved "Pippilotta Delicatessa Mackerelmint Longstocking, daughter of Captain Ephraim Longstocking, formerly a Captain of the Sea, but now a Cannibal King", * I can certainly understand admiring a ten year old literary character. But that's just me.😁

*Written completely from memory - probably contains errors

AliceBastable

wanderweg

We definitely seem to be an Asshole Nation lately - so many people have been emboldened by Trum to go around loaded for bear. I had a woman In Lowe’s flip out on my when I asked her politely to keep a safe distance since she wasn’t masked. Fucking lunatics.

I just read the book “I Fired God” by a woman who escaped for the Independant Fundamentalist Baptist cult ( you know, Westboro Baptist Church and the 19 and counting Duggars). I knew they justified a lot of abuse on God’s name, but I didn’t know the extent of it.

AliceBastable

In a normal world, Westboro Baptist and similar churches would be treated as hate groups by the government and everyone else.

Trishyla

As well they should be. Have you seen the new "Patriot" churches? They're dedicated to getting Trump reelected. They have to be taxed as political organizations .

Another thing for Biden's administration to deal with. The rise of political, hate based churches.

AliceBastable

magiclight

Somehow I missed the WPO story about Patriot Churches. Thanks for the reminder, yet another What the Fork! I took the what the fork line from a Netflix show The Good Place about going either to the Good Place or the Bad Place after death. Tongue in cheek with a twist.

AliceBastable

This shows how dangerous attending church can be!

Old Stratford Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

magiclight

Today is election day and 2/3 of the poll sites are in churches. Intimidation?? According to the Freedom from Religion site "polling places located in churches should be free from religious imagery." What church, church auditorium, or church school does not have religious imagery? With many alternative sites for polling why do churches need to be involved on election day? Intimidation??