Can anyone give an example where a Christian forced religion down your throat?

Question

I've heard everything on this form, satanist, atheist, Agnostics, Christians, Jews etc..

But I have often heard this "STOP FORCING YOU RELIGON DOWN MY THROAT"...but
I've never seen it here or anywhere!

I had few people in my 47 years ever approach me about their religion.

Please give an example of this "ReligiousForcing"

I want to hear this outrage!

Please don't say things like: My mom made me go to sunday school...I want to hear the BIG stuff!

Answer 1

I worked in a machine shop once where the owner forced his beliefs on the employees. Only Christian music was allowed--and that was played very loud. On my first day there he called me into his office and asked me detailed questions about my religion (which I refused to answer because of the situation) before telling me what religion I needed to belong to and what I needed to do to please his deity. He would hang various biased articles about other religions in the shop---some of the articles were against different denominations of his own religion (Christianity). He "counseled" a co-worker of mine after finding out that the co-worker's spouse was a LDS and told him that he needed to stop her. He would come up to us at our machines while we were working and give us religious video tapes and tell us to take them home and watch them and the next day he would ask us questions about them. This was all done on the clock and we couldn't do anything to get away from it--other than finding other employment. Which I did eventually.

To be fair, most Christians that I've met are much more subtle than this. But a good percentage is rude about it. Once they've stated their beliefs, I see no reason why they should feel the need to state them again, and again, and again, and again............

Answer 2

Well there are two scopes of this problem: the people who want to make laws based on religious moralty, and the people you know personally who talk abour religion.

I think everyone here can think of some examples of the former, like banning gay marriage, and outlawing abortions. These people need to realize that they cannot force people to obey their version of morality. If Adam and Steve want to enter a legal union to share property and provide for each other (and maybe their adopted children) then more power to them. It doesn't make my marriage any less meaningful.

As far as the latter, more personal "religious forcing", I can use my father-in-law as a perfect example. I am fiercely atheistic, whereas he is a fundamental Lutheran. When he comes to my house for dinner, he insists on saying grace before we eat. In MY house! In addition, he always makes comments about how his grandchildren do not attend church. Because of courtesy, and spousal pleading, I have not confronted him about his lack of respect for my beliefs. He is a decent enough guy, but I am not going to change my way of life to make him, or anyone else, happy.

Answer 3

I'm a Roman Catholic living in the south. Even though we are the largest religion in the world, there are not a lot of us in the south. My state is only 3% Roman Catholic.

There are religions that evangelize a lot. They ring the doorbell all the time wanting to know "do you believe in Jesus?" "Have you been saved?" etc. etc. etc.
It is useless to argue with them or try to set them straight about Roman Catholics.
The Jehovah's Witnesses are the most prolific evangelizers with the Mormons coming in second.
I've had plenty of southern baptists tell me that I'm going straight to hell when I die simply because I'm a Roman Catholic. How's that for being a Christian?
Pitiful.. that's what it is. I just tell them that I will pray that they have a change of heart, see the light, and become one of us :) then run like hell before they begin to disintegrate.

Answer 4

Wow.

The only example i have of this happening to me is the way Christians discuss their religion with me. They get angry or quite hasty in their remarks. They'll disrespect prophet Muhammed. They'll disrespect many aspects of my religion. They will twist words from the Quran to suit their standards or arguments. They act as though they know everything about Islam without even reading anything about it except the news. They always say how wonderful Jesus is and completely admonish prophet Muhammed. I'm sorry but i don't disrespect any of the prophets. I don't disrespect Prophet Moses or Prophet Jesus. I respect who they are and their lives. But it seems as though Christianity and Judaism admonish Islam for various reasons. I can't stand it. It's "forcing religion down my throat". It's "let's tell her all about Jesus and how great he is but let's completely dispect her beliefs because they just don't coincide with mine."

I've had Christians straight up say to me that i'm going to hell because i haven't accepted Jesus as my savior.
I'm sorry, but i guess they're saying Mahatma Ghandi is going to hell as well just like any other great man or woman who wasn't Christian.

I can't stand this whole "let's be compassionate and kind" hypocrisy bullshit.

If i'm going to hell, i know it's not because i wasn't a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu or whatever but because i was a bad person. And always had ill intentions.

I refuse to believe the word of man regarding my fate when i die.

Answer 5

My husband's ex wife was 'born again' after years of the two of them doing and selling many various drugs. It's perfectly wonderful when people change their evil ways and make positive changes in their lives...but rather than admit that her past choices were poor and own up to them she turned 180 degrees on him and became completely impossible to deal with...tried to keep their son away from him, generally became a bee-och and attempted to force D to make the same changes that she was convinced that she was making. She went total extreme with the whole number with the talking in tongues and flopping around on the floor...rather than be high on drugs she chose to be high on religion instead...in a bad way. Eventually their son ran away from her and moved in with his dad and she pushed everyone who didn't agree with her away.

She is a very bad example of Christianity. We are Christians as well and my husband happily converted a few years ago without anyone shoving it down his throat. I think that this is less an example of Christianity at its worst and more an example of a person at their worst. Nobody likes to be forced to do something against their will...and God truly isn't like that. He wants us to choose Him and if we don't then it is our decision.

Answer 6

Prayer in schools. Screamers on the downtown soapboxes. "God" on the money. Keeping women servile in their paternalistic families. Psycho-Dad president with a narrow fundamentalist view. Radio show freaks. Door-to-door proselytizing. Yahoo Answers. Abortion protests. They just never shut up.

Not to mention that many of the wars throughout history were started over religious squabbles. So, include Mega-Death as one of the ways religion is forced on us.

Answer 7

Christian Fundamentalists have been on the attack for years now, trying to deny rights to homosexuals, trying to outlaw abortions, trying to keep women from obtaining equal rights, and trying to impose their own morals - many of them non-biblical - on the rest of society. Non-Fundamentalists are finally fighting back by speaking out against their campaigns, their media onslaughts, and their mistaken notions of truth, and the Fundamentalists don't like it very much.

Answer 8

When my grandmother was alive she was a justice of the peace for the Catholic Church. When I told her I rejected the teachings of God and that I had become a Pagan she made me talk to a priest. He told me that Jesus loved me and I should convert to Christianity because that would "save" me. He was nice about it but obviously he thought I would go to hell if I didn't convert back. I told him I didn't want to be saved and never looked back. But the fact is that both of them felt it necessary to tell me these things . . . that, to me, was having Christianity forced down my throat.

Answer 9

let's talk,muslims in Afghanistan had ISLAMIC goverment run by clergy, the pilgrims came to america to escape religious persecution,the spanish inquisition tortured people to force acceptance of jesus,then they would kill them so they would not backslide,the crusaders from europe did the same thing to arabs,then the arabs did the same to europeans People who push others are pushed themselves,it's the nature of life until we learn to live by a higher law. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Answer 10

The attempts to ammend the constitution to prohibit gay marriage
The adding of "under god" to the pledge of allegiance
The adding of "in god we trust" on US currency
1000 different religiously motivated attempts to outlaw abortion
Religious displays such as the 10 commandments being put up on public property using my tax dollars.


Shall I keep going on, or have you woken up yet?