First, I'd be really irritated if someone just trundled up and turned off music I was listening to. That is just all the way through rude and out the other side. It's a line you don't cross, no matter who you are.

As to believers, oh man, where do I start? ?

This was after I'd been graduated from college and was still attending church with my family but no longer had faith. One Sunday there was a church gathering (a picnic or coffee klatch or something), and I said 'hi' to one of the parishioners who remembered me as having been an altar boy for several years of my youth. "I always thought you'd have become a priest," she said. And then suddenly she literally turned her back on me and started talking with someone else. This woman knew nothing about me other than I'd served on the altar for about 10 years; she didn't ask me what I'd studied in college; she didn't inquire about my job; she didn't make any effort to learn about what my interests were. All she cared about was that I, someone she knew nothing about, hadn't pursued the life she wanted me to choose. And that clearly offended her on some level, allowing her to rudely dismiss me because to her I no longer mattered — I no longer fit her expectations. I don't even remember now who the woman was, and I didn't care about her specifically or what she thought, but I remember thinking that this is the sort of mentality I was purging from my life by eschewing religion.

When I was younger they would often ask what tragedy happened in my life to make me turn away from god.

You got to have faith

Rob off of the poor fucking scumbags

I get a 2 for..when christians find out I had cancer they say "Oh god bless you" then " My prayers worked, thank god" when I tell them I'm a survivor...aaarg!

Oh really ?