so after I ask a customer if they want to donate to this month's cause (funding for children's hospitals) he says, 'since you asked me a question i'll ask you one: do you believe god is real?' and after I softened my no into a 'maybe' he asked - why anyone should donate to that cause if god doesn't exist and i was like '...empathy?'

he was like 'but without god where does empathy come from' and i was like 'from me' - meanwhile I was ringing up the next customer and first customer probably felt hurried because that's not a situation you can really talk in so that was pretty much it, i mentioned to the next person that it was kind of hard to have that kind of discussion while working

/sets him on fire

honestly that was my favorite conversion attempt I've gotten, that one I know how to reply to. when people just tell me i should be christian because the bible says to be it's like. how do you even respond to that

but yeah next customer said something the phrasing of which i can't remember but I wasn't sure if he didn't think I should have talked about that at work or not, so i said 'I used to say no to that kind of question but I felt bad about lying, so I don't know how' and he didn't say anything more about it.

i was worried he didn't think I should have talked about that at work (tbh I'm not sure myself) but at the end of the transaction before leaving he was like 'and may I say you handled that well, that man's question' so that felt nice

oops didn't describe myself well there at first I told the next customer 'at first I used to say no to that kind of question to avoid having that kind of discussion at work, but I felt weird about lying too so I'm not sure how to handle it'

I'm so glad to have encountered that kind of opinion in the wild, it's so seldom that I am sure I have the answer to a question. but like. 'basic empathy for other people comes directly from me' is an answer i was PREPARED to give. very rare

i'm glad you felt prepared with exactly what you wanted to say. but generally speaking, yikes being confronted by ppl like that

well i grew up here in the us south so i'm kind of used to it. i used to lie to questions like that up until a few years ago though so the experiences of being Not Christian here are still kind of exciting and notable to me

but yeah yikes is also right, i wish they'd just like... chill

boy someone needs to chill and read the bible indeed

did i mention the coworker that, in response to finding out that i didn't believe in the bible, gave me a list of parts of the bible to read that would convince me to believe in the bible. christians are fucking wild

i almost wish i'd kept the list so i'd know how dumb the suggestions were but iw as too mad and threw them away

Ooh jeez, I meet tons of people like that at work - perks of working at a christian retirement center. A lot of people try to 'debate' me and my brother saying that, well, without god/the bible what's stopping you from doing this or that atrocity

And we're always like 'are...are you saying that you would be doing those things right now if not for your religion???'

That’s such a fucking argument like you have to wonder about people making it a little bit. It’s so easy to refute but that’s also kind of because it’s completely fucked up

ooof

ooof is right