How did you respond?
It has happened a couple times and it is fun watching them backpeddle and try to explain what they really meant when I informed them of my religion. I knew them so I didnt really hold it against them. I thought it was really funny watching them squirm for a couple minutes. (they didnt hold that against me either, lol)
2007-12-17 17:32:23 · 18 answers · asked by cadisneygirl 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So many good answers I think I will let other people decide which one is best.
2007-12-18 13:47:40 · update #1
yeah its super awkward..because than there like..so what religion are you? and than you tell them and there like ooh........and they dont know what to say. and I'm just like i really dont care...haha
2007-12-17 17:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. My first day on a job, my new co-workers started bashing Catholicism. The whole lot of them stood there making all these bizarre anti-Catholic statements. Conspiracy theory stuff. The things they were saying were just weird and had no basis in fact. One of the workers, a Fundamentalist, had heard an anti-Catholic sermon at her church and wanted to share the "good news" with the others. After they found out that I'm Catholic, they stopped talking about it. And several times I've been out and about socially, and have heard anti-Catholic conversations. The last one was at a coffee shop recently. I usually don't say anything, or if I do, I'm disarmingly nice about it. But if I start asking for proof of their statements, or sources to back up their claims, they usually start backpedaling pretty fast.
2007-12-17 17:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by solarius 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yeah but it didnt bother me but as you said it was funny to squirm when they heard of what religion I was and then watch and listen to them trying to explain what they meant....yeah right lol. I'm lmao about the whole thing.
2007-12-17 23:59:43 · answer #3 · answered by LADY WITH AN ATTITUDE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Allah says interior the quran: do no longer insult those that they worship for if u do this they might insult Allah swt of their lack of understanding and so the different too could be actual yet i accept as true with the guy above that in the event that they coach their lack of understanding, without no push from ur area say: Kallu salama "want them peace" Surah chp 6:108. And insult no longer those whom they (disbelievers) worship to boot Allah, lest they insult Allah wrongfully without awareness. for that reason we've made honest-seeming to each human beings its very own doings; then to their Lord is their return and He shall then tell them of all that they used to do. salam
2016-11-03 22:29:05 · answer #4 · answered by kowalczyk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happened to me several times as a Mormon. Conversly, sometimes I'd be hanging out with my Mormon friends, and they would bash a certain religion or church only to be put in their place by someone. I guess what comes around goes around.
Liesel.
2007-12-18 05:18:41 · answer #5 · answered by Liesel 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Several times. I handled it much the same as you. Kinda fun. But it's also a good opportunity to set the record straight. Often the things they're saying are falsehoods they've heard from others.
2007-12-17 17:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When I was in the Peoples Front of Judea, the Judean Peoples Front were always bashing me....
2007-12-18 00:25:12 · answer #7 · answered by Kilroy J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some one mentioned his "stupid brother-in-law" who was "one of those born-agains". I told him I was a Christian who was born again spiritually, and he replied, "Well, I didn't mean all of them are like that". He continued to complain about his relative but didn't mention his faith again.
Most people I have met who talk negatively about other's faith (or lack of any) haven't appeared embarrassed at all.
2007-12-18 00:39:23 · answer #8 · answered by Renata 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a true gentleman. I have had people bash my ethnicity until I spoke up. I wasn't trying to humiliate them, I just wanted them to know that comments can be hurtful. Have a great day!
2007-12-17 17:36:47 · answer #9 · answered by whrldpz 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah.
I'm LDS, and people often talk about the missionaries. I've heard the most awful things about "those crazy mormons". They all assume I'm Catholic being Filipino and all,but then I tell them, they go red and shut up.
A girl once told me and all our friends she was thinking about seducing a missionary, just to see if she could. hehe. She wasn't a member. I told the mission president, and he called her mom. It was priceless. To this day, she doesn't know it was me that said anything. lmfao.
2007-12-17 20:59:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's never happened to me... but discussing religion with a GROUP of people is always touchy... sometimes people will have the same religion but have different beliefs...
2007-12-17 17:35:51 · answer #11 · answered by bigguu254 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋