The Day Full of Christians

Funny that the day after posting 'Why I'm an Atheist' a customer at work tries to "save" me.

This woman came to me asking if I could help her find anything on Serotonin and so I showed her to where such things were likely to be found. On the way to the section however I noticed that someone's phone was plugged in and sitting on one of the shelves (a common way to get your phone stolen and I HIGHLY discourage it), and I made a comment about how that always makes me nervous because I don't want anyone's phone to get taken. The woman (I shall call her Kris from now on....as in KRIStian) informed me that the cell belonged to the man she was with. As I gestured to were the materials she was looking for were I explained that I'd had my phone stolen before and didn't want to see the same happen to anyone else.

It was at this point that Kris told me I should not be concerned, "because.....hold on, have you accepted Jesus as your lord and savior?" 
*stunned silence in my brain followed by the knowledge that I'm at work and am serving this person* "Uh.....no *sees expression on Kris' face* um....sorry"
"Oh baby, don't say sorry to me! Say sorry to *raises arms* Him!"


I then proceeded to try and keep the focus on what she was looking for. I led her to another section but she was still focused on the "miracles" God had done for her. These miracles included Him getting her out of speeding tickets and responding to her question "God, what is going on with me? What's causing these problems?" with 'go and do your research. Look at chemicals in the body." "I kept hearing 'chemicals, chemicals'. So I started my research and now the more I read the more he reveals to me." Now, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that by reading and doing massive amounts of research one is almost guaranteed to learn....which reveals new information. Honestly though, what do I know, I'm just a simple college student whose future plans depend on massive amount of knowledge revealing itself......now if someone tells me that if I begin to believe in God then I will no longer have to study because He will give me all the information I need to do exceedingly well then I am SO there!

Now everything listed above is a summary of what was, roughly, an hour and a half of my life. I was EXTREMELY uncomfortable throughout the exchange, counting down the minutes until my work shift ended and I could flee (although I had been thinking about staying an extra bit to get more work done....and more money for my sad bank account). This may sound rather dramatic but the woman kept following me around and I could not tell her to 'quit it' with the God stuff but I had to provide her with customer service so I just kept the smile on my face, nodded a lot, said "That's interesting" or "I'm glad that worked for you" while shuffling my feet and being generally fidgety.

Finally, the clock strikes the golden hour and I'M OUTA THERE! Kristian displayed great regret that I was leaving and expressed her desire to talk to me again- can't waaait, for that visit. Anyway, so I get home and there are people at my house gathered for the regular RPG game, which I'd forgotten about. I also forgot, up until reaching our back porch, that one of the players is super Christian in that 'all these dirty people (gays, non-Christians, Christians that don't believe the way he does) surround me' way. So I come in to vent to my atheist-Dad with a it's my house, my dad, my crazy-Christian stalker, and damn it I can go off if I want to!  So I retell the story to may dad, and thus the other players in the room. So Christian RPG player guy was telling me that say "she was trying to save me" was not the proper way to say it, but that's what I heard in my Catholic high school, so *shrug*. Anyway- skipping ahead through me eating and such- the other players left so it was me, Mom, Dad, and Christian RPG player. Mom was under the impression that the woman was schizophrenic, Dad thought I shoulda' told her to leave me alone and couldn't understand why I didn't, the player went on about the disturbing things in the world God 'really' helps with and how women like Kristian ruin the 'truth' about The religion. He then proceeded to go off on homosexuality, especially that on TV....he went on a rant about that disgusting, immoral, un-godly Degrassi and I went into my room to watch 'Loving Annabelle'.

The thing about both of these people is that that seem to me (I don't know either one of them) to be decent human beings.....the problem is I can't be around them without feeling; judged, looked down on, dirty for being near someone who claims such goodness but holds loathing disgust for HUGE groups of people based solely on ignorance and a fear/dislike of tastes/opinions/beliefs that are not entirely their own, feeling anger that someone could be so hateful, feeling massive amounts at discomfort- the kind that one feels when they are next to someone talking to themselves, or yelling at a tree (honestly, it's how I feel, I'm not trying to be insulting; religious people probably feel the same about me).

This blog entry is not exactly how I envisioned it, it's also days late. I think it's the same mix of sarcasm, humor, seriousness, and self-expression as I feel about the whole day.