Ancient Wisdom and Pagan Spirituality

PatSeg

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18. I've done stuff like that with hardcore fundamentalists

Mon Mar 29, 2021, 08:23 AM

Mar 2021

I've told them I was a Buddhist and/or I believed in reincarnation. They really don't know what to do with that because they are so unworldly. They know so little about other cultures and have no real desire to learn. In their safe little bubble, everyone is a Christian or a sinner. It has never dawned on them to question what they've been taught, which I've always found bizarre, as I've questioned pretty much everything I've been told for as long as I can remember.

You are right. Their actions truly are very un-Christian, at least if they'd ever bothered to really pay attention to what Jesus said in that bible they like to use as the last word on everything. Eventually, I found it more effective to use their own scriptures against them. If that is the last word, then how can they refute it? Of course, some of them do, but I have had others shut up and go away, even a Southern Baptist minister. That's okay, I know he probably prayed for me for a very long time!

I get so tired of devout Christians cherry-picking the bible to confirm their own prejudices and ignoring the ones they disagree with.

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Pagan sues Panera Bread Company alleging religious discrimination [View all] Silver Gaia Mar 2021 OP

Her husband who also worked at Panera was also fired..... riversedge Mar 2021 #1

Right. Silver Gaia Mar 2021 #2

Selena Fox. Isn't she from west of Madison area? AllyCat Mar 2021 #13

I am glad that Lady Liberty League reached out to them. niyad Mar 2021 #16

I hope they get a big settlement. First of all, you KNOW the manager and assistant manager were Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #3

+1 Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #4

I don't know. But I would like to know. RVN VET71 Mar 2021 #5

But they sure set the pace for it. Especially when decreeing what God wants to those whose beliefs Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #7

I think the description of the harassment fits the Evangelical docket RVN VET71 Mar 2021 #11

exactly BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2021 #6

Oh my, how very Christian of them PatSeg Mar 2021 #8

Apparently not, because it was an assistant manager, a manager and a district manager who Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #9

What decade are these people living in? The 1960s? PatSeg Mar 2021 #14

The morons have been totally emboldened. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #31

There sure has been a lot of that the past four years PatSeg Mar 2021 #32

It actually is very 'christian' of them Celerity Mar 2021 #29

None of their business Desert_Leslie Mar 2021 #10

I've done stuff like that with hardcore fundamentalists PatSeg Mar 2021 #18

I've always told the door to door evangelical proselytizers that I'm an Orthodox Druid Siwsan Mar 2021 #22

Oh yes, telling them something exotic and strange PatSeg Mar 2021 #26

I will never forget I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #34

I think that is the key PatSeg Mar 2021 #35

So let me guess this probably not a company store but one of their franchises. Historic NY Mar 2021 #12

I was thinking the same thing PatSeg Mar 2021 #19

There is a group out there that own most ofthe franchises... Historic NY Mar 2021 #24

That is such a shame PatSeg Mar 2021 #28

I can think of a national franchise retail chain bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #20

And that's where you should say, as I have many times, "None of your goddamned business." rickyhall Mar 2021 #15

Absolutely Mr. Steve Mar 2021 #23

Adding Panera Bread to my growing boycott list. niyad Mar 2021 #17

"....that there has been a noticeable uptick in discrimination over the past four years." PatSeg Mar 2021 #21

I'm happy to see it go to court, so someone can read multigraincracker Mar 2021 #25

Oh yes, one of my favorites PatSeg Mar 2021 #27

Ask them about those words in Red, multigraincracker Mar 2021 #30

Another outfit to add to my list to avoid! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2021 #33