I need to vent. [View All]

[Bouncy Ball]

Bible verses, religion wars, are you offended by me, am I offended by you threads, AHHHH!!! FUGGELDEY people, I LIVE IN DALLAS! I can walk outside and be assaulted by religion!

There's a flyer on the telephone pole at the end of the block that says "KIDS! COME PARTY WITH JESUS!" and it's got some real scary clip art Jesus holding balloons. The whole thing is translated into Spanish, too.

There are seventeen freaking churches on every street corner. And just wait until Vacation Bible School season, we'll be getting twelve flyers a DAY in the mail from every different church in a five-city area. There'll be huge banners draped up everywhere about how THIS Vacation Bible School is the BEST ONE to send your kid to!!!

Coworkers always trying to sell their church to me, oh we have this fantastic workshop on how to submit better to your husband! Oh we have this great Bible study we just started about how to discipline your kids in a GODLY way. :scared: (Why does that make me envision human sacrifice?)

Last night at Subway, my daughter and I sat down at a table and there were Bible tracts lying there cleverly disguised as five dollar bills. Oh ho ho ho, the ingenious Christian proselytizer almost GOT me in my greed for the bling bling, didn't they? Ho ho, very funny!

There are not one, not two, not three, but NINE different all-religion, all the time channels on my TV lineup. The Mormon one is the newest one.

Then you've got the regular mainstream media who show religious programming all the time, you've got the History Channel that does Jesus shows about every other day.

Silver fish and "JESUS IS COMING!" bumper stickers on every other car. Christian rock concerts. Christian t-shirts with half-pithy slogans about nails and blood. WWJD bracelets, earrings, belts, shirts, folders, spirals, binders, shoelaces, necklaces, pins, buttons, stickers, greetings cards. The other day I was shopping and saw CHRISTIAN SOAP in the shape of a fish (does it get you cleaner, I wondered?).

You can forget about going east or west on two particular interstate highways near me on Sundays, because the traffic is so bad (megachurches), they have police officers out directing it. Services at 8 am, 9 am, 10 am, 11 am and noon! Shuttle buses available! Youth RALLY Sunday nights!!!

I GET IT! I REALLY, REALLY DO! Religion good, not religion BAD. Must show off religious status at every available opportunity. Must push religion on everyone I can. Must stock up on ammo and guns. MUST BE AFRAID!!!!!!!!

OVERLOAD. I'm overloaded. Full up. Had my fill of religion enough to last me the rest of my life.

I just want a nice quiet island somewhere. And the only fish I want to see are the ones I catch and cook.

(And I'm Christian. I can only imagine how people who AREN'T must feel living here. They must have some way of blocking it out. Does anyone sell a Religo-Filter? I'd pay $500.)