Last Saturday I worked an EMS Standby shift at our local baseball park. I had mistakenly assumed that it was a minor league baseball game followed by a fireworks display, and was looking forward to it - getting paid for five hours for watching baseball and fireworks!
Boy was I wrong!! Turns out there was no baseball. It was a large "preach to the choir" event put on by a consortium of the evangelical "Christian" churches here, complete with a windy sermon, a "Call to the Altar" to be saved, and a "Christian Rock" band.
Only after all that was there fireworks and that was, incredibly, drowned out by the amps of the band!
I figured, ok, what the heck, I'm still getting paid by the hour. So ... I'm standing there, minding my own business, which is to be ready and available to help anyone who get hurt or becomes ill.
This DOCTOR! A real, live M.D. sidles up to me and out of the clear blue looks deep into my eyes and asks, "Are YOU a BELIEVER?"
I was a bit taken back. Surprised. I guess I shouldn't have been, as one of their doctrinal principles is to try to shove their brand of religion down others' throats. I replied, "No maam, I'm not." At which she said, "Not yet!" And I said, "Not ever." And then it was on.
What IS it about these folks, that they just can't leave others the f*** alone? And then they complain that THEY are being attacked? Belief systems are incredibly strong, are they not? Folks who are so afraid of reality, and so unable to tolerate any ambiguity in the world they live in that they not only have to embrace this Down-the-Rabbit-Hole doctrine, but also have to do everything they can to inflict it on other innocents.
(Edit: Oops, just re-read this. I'm not claiming to be "innocent." But I'd take a "not TOO guilty plea.)
Boy was I wrong!! Turns out there was no baseball. It was a large "preach to the choir" event put on by a consortium of the evangelical "Christian" churches here, complete with a windy sermon, a "Call to the Altar" to be saved, and a "Christian Rock" band.
Only after all that was there fireworks and that was, incredibly, drowned out by the amps of the band!
I figured, ok, what the heck, I'm still getting paid by the hour. So ... I'm standing there, minding my own business, which is to be ready and available to help anyone who get hurt or becomes ill.
This DOCTOR! A real, live M.D. sidles up to me and out of the clear blue looks deep into my eyes and asks, "Are YOU a BELIEVER?"
I was a bit taken back. Surprised. I guess I shouldn't have been, as one of their doctrinal principles is to try to shove their brand of religion down others' throats. I replied, "No maam, I'm not." At which she said, "Not yet!" And I said, "Not ever." And then it was on.
What IS it about these folks, that they just can't leave others the f*** alone? And then they complain that THEY are being attacked? Belief systems are incredibly strong, are they not? Folks who are so afraid of reality, and so unable to tolerate any ambiguity in the world they live in that they not only have to embrace this Down-the-Rabbit-Hole doctrine, but also have to do everything they can to inflict it on other innocents.
(Edit: Oops, just re-read this. I'm not claiming to be "innocent." But I'd take a "not TOO guilty plea.)
[font=Arial Black]... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.[/font]