NoWooWoo wrote:
babybird wrote:
Ah! I didn't realize you was living in a religious area.
That must be hard for you then if you are a non believer.
Sorry...
It doesn't really matter if I am a Believer or Not.
The LinchPin of their society is
Prostration to power.
Here, Wrong is Wrong and Right is Wrong.
If you are a Believer, you Prostrate. If you are not a Believer you are Wrong and deserve Ridicule & Ostracism & to have Opportunities hindered.
This Whole Place, (Judicial, Economic, Social) is Ham Strung and Extorted by Emotional Religious Bullying Woo Woo.
Oh, bummer, I really feel for you. I used to live, went to college, and worked in the Bible Belt, and got a lot of the Christian woo woo (which I found a lot more irritating than the New Age or Eastern Religion woo woo I hear in other places I've lived). Maybe it was because Christian woo woo was so darned aggressive--they'd work it into practically every conversation and go into long, boring monologues trying to convert my heathen soul. People in most other religions and liberal Christian churches don't tend to be so pushy about it.
My parents were college professors, with my dad being a geologist, so I was pretty much raised on Evolution As Truth. I knew more about dinosaurs than my high school biology teacher. I used to get into long arguments with conservative Christians in high school and college, but finally realized I was wasting my time and just getting annoyed.
I eventually learned that the only way to win is not to play. If people asked what my religion was or if I'd been saved, I would politely say that I preferred not to discuss it. If they tried to work religion into the conversation, I would change the subject, or pretend they had not brought it up. By the way, if you are being denied opportunities because of your religion, or lack of it, that's discrimination. As for missing on social cues, could you talk to your manager and tell him/her that you don't pick up things like body language or subtext?
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