Close encounters of the religous kind.....

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thats my biggest problem dealing with people, even face-to-face i cannot tell sarcasim.

Well said. That's basically what I was gonna write myself.

In the town where I live (in Norfolk UK) the christians are out in all their fundamentalist force. My town is one whose association with the church is so deep and long standing that religious people have a strangehold over everything that goes on; things like halloween are always downplayed and some shops even feel compelled not to sell fireworks in November. It used to piss me off to a huge extent when I was younger, and the worst thing wad the autocracy had by the church leaders in being the only people who ever came to speak to us in school.
If you live in such a town its hard to condemn their activities because it is basicaly to be politically incorrect. But you just have to look around more widely for people who see all their hypocrisy, and it'll be easy to rise above it all. Furthermore, in concurrence with others on this thread, some Christians will accept others'point of view and many are little more than naturally charitable people who want to help others. Having a God helps some people to live disciplined, productive and happy lives, but some of us can conjure up our own Gods, simple as that./

Why would I want to be "saved" if I ended up in Heaven with all those judgmental religious fanatics?

There's a good t-shirt in that somewhere...

I, myself, don't mind a good "Merry Christmas" etc., giving or receiving. But I do mind when another attempts to convert me with endless scripture or some other means. I only ask respect.

I know there's plenty of Xtians who are very capable of respecting another person's boundaries and many who do. But there are also plenty who don't. And if they're getting into Heaven, then somebody f-ed up.

It's "God please save me from your "good People"

And what about meeting Martin Luther King, Gundhi, Joan de Arch, Socrates...?
I think only a select few will be "chosen," otherwise it wouldn't be "heaven."

I think were dwelling on assumptions.
Life and death is not about facts even with near death experiances.

there is no way that hell could torment me. I can be amused by anything, including my own suffering, therefore i will never cease to be amused.