Fundie Sunday

[HeeBGBz]

Geez, I hate working on Sunday. Everybody runs out to eat after church and they leave their kindness at the altar. A dollar a holler and maybe a bible tract to taunt the godless servers.

I had one guy last week who came in with a huge group. I wandered up to make the usual small talk "Hi How are you" He said, "I am blessed. The lord has blessed me today. Has he blessed you today?" I damn near chipped a tooth biting my tongue to keep from telling him how very blessed I was.

Then, he offered the kicker, "How do you like having to work on Sunday?" Well someone has to feed the holy hogs for Jesus.

Today another big group including a 4 and 5 year old with their black "God's Army" t-shirts on. That really creeped me out. On the back it said "Fighting for souls at so and so church." It's like Hitler's youth.

It gets weirder and weirder.

[sangh0]

1. You have my sympathies

Swallowing their hypocrisy is harder than swallowing whatever swill your employer can dish up.

[Ekirh]

3. I remember at the boys and girls club....

That I worked at The parents of one of the kids that attended put me in for prayer requests at their church due to my Kerry/Edwards Sticker. I only know that cause one of the kids brought me a church brochure and informed me why the parents did this.

[AllyCat]

2. I hated working Sundays

These people would leave those stupid cards that said "Tip--God loves you" I tried to pay my rent with them but the landlord wouldn't take 'em.

But hey, at least the crazy RR nut was concerned about your blessings, if only in word. But in deed? Well, we can't get them all, can we?

[fnottr]

4. I feel your pain

Back in high school I had a job at a pizza place, and every Sunday, a huge church group would come through. I noticed consistently they had the loudest, most obnoxious children, left the largest messes, and whined the loudest about the service.

[Sugarbleus]

5. "Well someone has to feed the holy hogs for Jesus." How true

It's crazy how they ask YOU what you think of working on Sunday BUT they are participants in the scheme also... geez, do they ever think about what they're saying?

Yes, I'm particularly disgusted and averse to the brainwashing of children in these sects.

[sangh0]

8. "How do you like working on the Sabbath?"

"And btw, go fetch me some water!"

You can't make that shit up

[Dzimbowicz]

6. In reference to your statement about the "God's Army" T-Shirts...

There is a fundamentalist group in my area which gave itself the name: People of Worship. They wear t-shirts, hoodies, etc. which highlight the letters POW. As a veteran, to have these fundies refer to themselves as POWs really pisses me off to no end.

[Lady Effingbroke]

16. It's amazing how militaristic these fundamentalist groups are.

I recall seeing a group of them with t-shirts stating that they were members of "S.W.A.T. - Spiritual Warfare Action Team".

[Dzimbowicz]

17. Here's another one from my area...

TGIF = Thank God I'm Forgiven

Yes, I have actually seen this one.

[Throckmorton]

26. I always thought that meant 'Toes go in first"

I have it stenciled on all my socks.

[MountainLaurel]

18. Wasn't the Army of God

The group that Eric Rudolph bombed the Olympics, gay bars, and women's clinics on the behalf of?

:scared:

[Dzimbowicz]

19. I don't know

[MountainLaurel]

21. Answering my own question, YES

And look at some of the shit I found:

http://www.christiangallery.com/aog.html

http://www.christiangallery.com/ExplodingArmyofGodMyth.htm

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/03/18/army.god.letters/

http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/rudolph.html

Onward Christian soldiers!

:scared:

[Dzimbowicz]

25. Thanks for the info

Yes, this is some frightening stuff! I find it amazing that these people feel they are the ones under attack, when the reverse is the truth. :scared:

I currently work in the town where the Bakker's ran their con operation and many of their followers are still here. Hopefully, I will be moving back to a "blue" area of SC in the near future. Yes, believe it or not, there are "blue" areas of SC.

Keep up the fight and the vigil!

[HeeBGBz]

7. I just wonder what they are telling these kids

God's Army, indeed.

When I grew up learning about Jesus, I never quite viewed him as Rambo.

[sangh0]

10. "I never quite viewed him as Rambo"

That must mean you've never encoutered MoPaul's (a DU poster and artist) version of "Extreme Jesus". I generally find MP's humor to be tactless, but I had to admit that Extreme Jesus was extremely funny

[HeeBGBz]

11. Is that the same as Buddy Jesus?

I like him.

[sangh0]

12. I don't think so

Is Buddy Jesus a MoPaul production? As I mentioned, I'm not a big fan of MP, but he does sometime come up with some good stuff.

[midnight armadillo]

31. I knew some fundies who loved Warrior Jesus

Their favorite part of the Bible were the sections in the Old Testament where God showed up and kicked everyone's ass. They didn't really think much of the whole JEsus-as-peacemaker thing.

The two were also vicious mysoginists and hated modernity. One was an electrical engineer who believed all of modern physics (quantum mech, etc) was total bullshit - oh, the irony.

[sandnsea]

9. him: "Has he blessed you today?"

you: "I'll let you know when I see the size of your tip."

:eyes: Asshat. I am soooo glad I avoid the world.

[DireStrike]

14. I would love to say:

Yes, the goddess HAS blessed me today! Blessed be!

[progressoid]

13. Ha Ha Ha - I laugh because if I didn't laugh, I'd cry

What a dick.

Next time ask him if he would like his meal prepared by Satanists or Christians? "Since people as pious as you can't work, all we can do is hire heathens to work on the Sabath."

[thinkingwoman]

15. instead of biting your tongue

maybe you should have told him that you feel very blessed to live in a country where you are still free to practice your religion as you see fit or not at all.

And then when he asked how you felt working on Sunday maybe you should have asked him who would be serving his meal nobody worked on Sunday.

Of course, if it had been me, given that I'm Jewish, I would have said that working on Sunday was fine because it was much better than working on the Sabbath. ;-)

[HeeBGBz]

23. I have a whole list of things I should have said

All the things I should not say were affecting my ability to say much of anything. Mainly it pissed me off to want to say something and not be able to because I'm not ready to lose this meaningless job yet.

Self-condemnation clouded my ability for a snappy comeback.

[thinkingwoman]

24. been there

I certainly understand biting your tongue to keep a job and keep food on the table.

Don't beat yourself up. Sometimes I wish I had your level of restraint. My snappy comebacks get me into a lot of trouble.

[Piperay]

20. If all the fundie 'Xians' who are

offended by people who work on Sundays stayed home after church maybe other people who wait on them wouldn't be needed to work Sundays. }(

[bryant69]

22. I totally agree

I never purchase anything on Sunday for that reason, other than occasional gas, if it's unavoidable. I can't understand people who read the bible, seem to believe the bible, and still go out to Sunday Brunch. But to each their own I suppose.

Bryant
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[Killarney]

27. that God's Army shit is truly scary

I grew up in a church that was all "take care of the poor and be nice to people". Now it seems like the majority of religion is about bloodlust and war. "America, Fuck Yeah."

[bunkerbuster1]

28. A 5 year old wearing stuff like that...

Reminds me of the shortest verse in the bible:

"Jesus puked."

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. Sad, very sad. Too bad no progressive Christians were there to put those

folks in their place.

[Yuugal]

30. perhaps all 3 of them were busy? nt