I am riding along this morning on the bike trail. This guy pulls onto a road that crosses the trail

[doc03]

and rolls his window down. I stop and he asks me how far the trail goes. I tell him how far it is each away on the trail.
Then out of the blue he says "We need to put prayer back in schools and I think Trump will do it". From the look of him I don't think he has been on bike for 40 year or better, I think the only reason he stopped was to tell me he wants prayer in school and Trump is going to do it. I just told him I had to go rather than engage the idiot in any argument. Besides that there was nobody else around and the fool
could have just shot me. He was obviously nuts anyway since he was a Trump person.

[redwitch]

1. You were wise to just ride away.

That was a little too strange. He should go into a closet and pray.

[furtheradu]

2. That is just weird as all get out.

Glad You didn't experience anything more negative than that! But wth? ?!
Stay safe out there!

[doc03]

4. That was certainly weird I am in West Virginia at the time and a guy with

Pennsylvania plates stops me to say we need prayer in schools and he thinks Trump will do it.
Strange indeed.

[furtheradu]

7. I'd be trusting my instincts & packin'

..pepper spray. Which I do! These freaks are NUTS. Stay safe out there!

[doc03]

12. I carry pepper spray, I am thinking maybe I should carry my handgun too nt

[furtheradu]

18. Y'know, I was going to post

"pepper spray or something ELSE! " ..You read my mind! I don't enCourage violence or escalating a situation, but these are not normal times OR normal people.
..Penn plates, & he is asking about the trail? I was thinking he was wondering where to dump a body or something, and that was before I read the prayer - trump nonsense! Yikes!

[notdarkyet]

28. He probably figured since you rode a bike you were a liberal. His own brand of preaching

.

[muntrv]

3. Matthew 6-6.

http://biblehub.com/matthew/6-6.htm

[Squinch]

10. That's a good reply! They probably would have to go home and look it up!

[Dawson Leery]

35. The rider was most likely an Evangelical.

They like putting on shows in public

[cutroot]

5. Winning or losing a confrontation over someone else's unsolicited opinion

would be pointless and worthless. Most of these trump supporters are now feeling the pinch and they want vindication. Give them nothing.

[BSdetect]

6. My response would be "Why do we need schools at all, they just seem to produce so many stupid peopl

[elmac]

27. Yes

when I'm confronted by fools like that I love to play mind games on them, try to out tRump them. It can be quite entertaining.

[greymattermom]

8. How about this?

I'm sure that Jared prays every day.

[greymattermom]

9. and that he knows how to put on

tefilin.

[ProudLib72]

11. I would have told him

Betsy De Vos is a pagan witch and tRump knew about her when she was appointed. Tell him you've already seen small children playing with sticks like they were magic wands, and if he wants to keep children safe he'd better clean up all the sticks from all the school yards. That would keep him busy.

[EarthFirst]

13. That's about as odd as stopping you to say he likes potatoes...

Probably wise you didn't engage.

[steve2470]

37. +1 nt

[struggle4progress]

14. Oh, just say something nice about the President and move on:

"Isn't he great? Gotta admire what he's doing in Palm Beach! He's really been cleaning up at that Lara Mago club!"

[rurallib]

15. The prayer will be written by Trump

and be in praise of Trump. That should make that guy happy.

[cwydro]

16. How incredibly odd. nt

[GallopingGhost]

17. I would have said,

"Trump hasn't got a prayer!"

[They_Live]

25. Heh. Works either way.

I like that.

[Honeycombe8]

19. Confirms what I thought about Trumpers. Weird or nuts. Or both. Glad you rode away w/o responding.nt

[lady lib]

20. What does he think is happening in classrooms across the U.S.

right before the graded exams are handed back?

[AllaN01Bear]

21. hem. they yell and scream about the constition, and know nothing about

churh and state sepration. humbug, someone on here said that tRump supporters sound like russion bots , and they are always spouting the talking points.

[tiptonic]

22. Religion

Opiate of the masses.

[magicarpet]

23. Nod your head in the affirmative........

..... smile pleasantly.... then move quickly along as soon as possible without making a fuss. Thank your lucky stars and your hasty exit.

[gratuitous]

31. Maybe a friendly, "Bless your heart"

Then, yeah, ride it like you stole it.

[Martin Eden]

24. If the federal government puts prayer in public schools ...

... the government will control it.

Let's see how happy this idiot is when the government dictates the religion of all students must be represented and the idiot's kids/grandkids are led in prayer recitals from the Koran.

[retrowire]

26. Reminds me of the time I was taking a shit in a stall in the mens room

and the dude on my right knocks on the wall and said, "Hey, I think we need to put prayer back in schools and I think Trump will do it!"

Needless to say I dropped my load and got the hell outta there.

[furtheradu]

30. Hey! That was Pennsylvania Guy!

on Doc's bike path! Yikes!
Spoooky!

[3catwoman3]

32. You are not making this up?

I would be tempted to say, "You're right. I would be praying to be left alone by fucking weirdos like you."

[retrowire]

36. Well I did make this up as a joke

On how spontaneous OP's scenario was lol.

[Lucky Luciano]

29. Sounds like the beginning of a redneck horror movie - Wrong Turn genre! nt

[3catwoman3]

33. That is not just strange, it is creepy strange.

Hair on-the-back-of-the-neck-standing-up creepy strange.

I'm glad you beat it out of there.

[DeminPennswoods]

34. I can top that

Hired a local rug cleaning outfit and not only got the rugs cleaned, but a free evangelical come to Jesus pitch too. What goes through a business person's mind that they think bringing up any of the 3 taboo topics sex, religion or politics is a good idea?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

38. Wise move.

I just told him I had to go rather than engage the idiot in any argument.

I wandered into a local bar a few years ago and a tattoo-covered fellow approached me to say he'd never seen me in there before. He initially seemed to be recruiting me to become a "regular" in that place. Then he started sharing white supremacist ideas, and I expressed some contrary views. (Not too much because it was obvious that I wasn't going to sway him anyway.) He glared at me as he walked away.

I should've immediately left that place, but I stuck around for a couple hours to play darts and the like.

As I left and starting walking in the direction of my car, I was knocked out from behind, robbed and ultimately spent the night at an ER. I'm probably lucky to be alive.

In your case, the person was probably a "harmless" Evangelical (but it's smart to not make such an assumption). They're not actually harmless because many of them have no qualms about imposing their beliefs on others, but many of them are so obsessed and deluded with their beliefs that they think they're actually helping this country with such authoritarian actions.

Think of people like Pat Robertson declaring that God punished New Orleans with a hurricane. Once people start thinking along those lines, it's understandable that they'd think they're actually helping everyone by forcing them to comply with THEIR rules.