How many times has someone just assumed you were Christian in some way or another?
Sure. I have this almost instinctual response to help when that opportunity pops up and I'm able to. For some reason some of the comments or help I offer without complaint or concern for a thanks or praise of any kind generally gets me offers to join someone's church or as which sect or church I already belong to. Never a question of if I'm religious. Apparently being a nice person is automatically attached to religious. I never quite understood that notion. I haven't been a church goer since I was a child aside from weddings and funerals. I haven't felt the need or want.
Why does just being a nice person have to automatically mean religious? I mean seriously, I've seen the most horrendous behavior from known religious figures, why would I want anything to do with that?
@TampaHeathen Sometimes... Actually, you should see them when I admit I'm pagan (non-theist). That doesn't happen often but every once in a while I just get the sense of having a little fun with them. You'd think they were about to go into full possession mode, head spin and pea soup spew threatened... LOL!
A lot, I am always referred to as christian because I practice equality , do not degrade those that are not as I am, and in full relationship with the christian perspective I am not afraid of things. I do have a faith or belief that when goodness meets goodness it is all good..
Every time i meet someone new, they assume i am, when of course i am not, then i tell them i don't believe in there man in the sky, and they don't want to talk to me anymore lol
All the time. Only this forum... my son... my wife... and my brother in law know about me.
I don't know. They learn pretty quick otherwise if they did/do though.
I'm guessing it happens more than I know because most of the time it simply doesn't come up. A woman I worked with who was from my hometown was appalled when I told her, and then told her my kids weren't baptized. I thought she'd die right there. (I still get anonymous "Easter cards" in the mail, but not since I moved.) Another was a real estate agent who asked me what church I attended, and the news was a shock to her as well, one she clearly didn't expect. Her husband was present to, and he just stuttered. I went with another agent. There are more instances I can come up with, but they follow the same pattern. And then there are all those people making the same assumptions who never bring them up. I think it's funny.
I'm such a Betty people assume I'm Christian, Conservative, possibly even racist. Then I open my mouth. It's amazing what I overhear when people just assume I'm going to agree with them.
Almost all the time, probably because of where I live.