This is why some Christian's are looked upon with such disdain. I was at work the other day. And a coworker and I got to talking. I explained that at the time I was staying with my ex wife. I was helping her out financially, until she got things straightened out again. At which point this person had the audacity to ask me. If my ex wife and I were having sex? Cause god doesn't approve of sex outside of marriage.
My first thought was, how in the hell is it any of your damn business what we may or may not be doing? ( We're not by the way). And 2nd, your opinion of your thoughts on this. Based merely in your choice to believe in something. That I equate with the same belief as Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, or the Great Pumpkin. Was neither asked for not wanted. And is not a conversation one should be having at work.
Finally, I spoke with a manager and relayed my concern with this individual and their comments and questions. And it does seem that it has alleviated this issue. But seriously, do some think that because they're religious or devout. That it gives them a pass on workplace ethics, or simple common decency?
To answer your question - unfortunately it does. It seems to me that many of these people have concluded that the principles for living they derive from their belief must be universalized. It appears they believe they have some special line of sight into what’s right and what’s wrong and are duty bound to make sure everyone abides by them.
the universe their mind builds is based upon their understanding (or lack of) physical reality. so when we do something adverse to that paltry, limited understanding of theirs it gives them cause for concern. obviously all of existence should follow the same rules so if you're not then maybe something is wrong with them? oh hell no, they'll never see it that way. it will always be you UNTIL they can open their minds to the possibility that they might be mistaken.
Whatever his god thinks of sex outside of marriage, the Invisible Pink Unicorn is A-OK with it.
You see I would have made stuff up like "actually i asked my pastor, and he said technically god does not recognize divorce, so technically we can still have sex. It's a loophole not many know about. So yeah, my wife are doing it on a daily basis, can I get a hallelujah!"
Ah yes, I can see where I think you are coming from.
We once had a fellow worker on the Railways like that, we 'dubbed' ( nicknamed) 'Pigeon,' short for "Stool Pigeon" due to his propensity for 'running' to the Boss at the drop of a hat to report on anything he found that did comply with his religious beliefs.
I copped it a few times, the most memorable being when I had finished ahead of time doing my 'extra' duties as Stores Keeper and Timekeeper and was sitting at my desk, having a coffee and reading a copy of a book written by none other than Christopher Hitchens.
He almost burnt rubber getting to the Boss's office to dob me in for reading " Blasphemous, Heretical material at work."
Absolutely EVERYONE on the job copped a dob in from 'Pigeon' at least once per week so we decided to decorate his locker and lunch box with centre folds cut from magazines like Playboy, etc,etc.
And refused, point blank, to 'bow our heads and pray with him' at meal times, ever after that Pigeon always sat in his car at meal breaks ( after he had "scoured out the filth" from his lunch box and locker door that is) and finally after months and months on end, requested a transfer to another Rail Depot, where we later learned he did the same thing yet again before actually tendering his resignation.
To my mind there will always be, sadly, those Faithfools who seek to impose their beliefs on everyone around them and they will NEVER take No for an answer.
Keep you private business private! You opened the door to this opinion.....
You should have just said that you render under Caesar what is Caesar's, and what is God's under God, and the divorce was not in god's eyes, but only the eyes of evil godless government. And god says to go forth and multiply, and that marriage combines you into one flesh FOREVER in the eyes of god, and that marriage is between one man and one woman for the express purpose of procreation, and what god has put together let no man put asunder! Then say, "Of course we're having sex because I follow the One True God of the Bible!" Then look him straight in the eyes and ask, Don't you believe in GOD?????
Just a thought. Your mileage may vary.
It is a grossly mistaken belief AND application that the Bah-bul does not allow divorce. That is, if one is a man. The males in ancient Palestine (Israel and Judea) could divorce for any reason, and for no reason. But for the woman, that divorce was the kiss of death because of actually having no rights except the return of her dowry, she had none, and was forced to live on the streets begging for alms. As were her children. This is why the Biblical Jesus continually exhorted the new Christians (who were mostly Jews) to remember the dispossessed of their world, the stranger, the infirm, but PARTICULARLY the WIDOW and the ORPHAN. For a woman who was divorced, it was the same as being a widow, survival-wise. This is just one reason and example that Feminist and Liberation Theology came about... care of and for the oppressed.... with the proviso to NOT become the oppressor. But herein lays the rub, or at least, one of them. The Fundamentalists and the Evangelikkkals care not for these Biblical double standards. They are the modern day Pharisees, who historically were... get this... hair-splitters, literalists, narrow interpreters of both myth and scripture, and general all-around pricks! Just like today. Islam has the same ground rules for women: the males are always the power-mongers. Except inside the home, which was and is the domain of the feminine. When a man divorced a woman... HE was not the one accused of adultery... the woman was. Which is why in the Christian scriptures, Jesus comments NOT on the institution of divorce, but rather, the damage it does by the disparity in power between a formerly married husband, and a divorced wife. This is why he told the ASSEMBLED PEOPLE around the "woman caught in the act of adultery" (whether or not she was actually guilty of adultery, just as in Sharia law), to "go and sin no more." THIS passage is almost always misinterpreted to put the BLAME on the woman, and not the man with whom she was presumably being adulterous with, again, like Sharia law. In ignorantly, dogmatically, deliberately, and very calculatingly using these misinterpretations, bad religion and theology controls non-discerning and emotionally deficient followers to act in a herd mentality. In other words... as a cult. In my opinion, divorce is Gadh's gift to humankind.
@Homealone Ok. I was mostly making a joke.
Your workplace sounds like a barrel of laughs!
Good luck with the others that will accost you now!
that is why I refuse to entertain their fake beliefs because once you do you fall into their trap. Have to pint out right off the top you think thier belief is illogical and stupid
See, this is one of the reasons people like this are victims of assault....