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Though when at school I had a teacher who was a born again Christian who at every chance attempted to shove Christianity done our throats, she wasn’t in fact the most annoying religious person I met.

Believe it or not it wasn’t Christian of Muslim but a Satanist & a total fundamentalist one at that. I‘ve know people to become Satanists as a means of rebelling against Christian bullshit being pushed ion them but usually they grow out of it when they get out of their teens. This girl was 37 at the time & attacked anybody who believed different to her & actually didn’t seem to like people in general especially men. Seems to me that she was a pretty fucked up chick & another illustration that religious dogma attracts fucked up people.
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2009, 10:01:58 AM »

This girl was 37 at the time

Um? A 37 year old gir? OK, I can call hot twenty-something-year-olds girls, but 37 seems to be pushing it!

On Religious intolerance by Satanists, you could check out this cool documentary about Ghaal, of the ban Gorgoroth, who explains "Satanism" as being a belief in or respect for nature, plus an individualism, the rise of the individual over religion, the law, and morality. At the end of the interview he gets pissed off and totally freezes out the interviewer when the interviewer asks how he can become a follower of Ghaal, having just been told that the whole point is not to be a follower.

(Of course, the Norwegian church burnings were hardly emblematic of a movement wanting to resist imposed religion, and could be seen as intolerant, and it would be plausible to see Black metallers not as Satanists, but as Norse nationalists, wanting a restoration of traditional Viking culture against the encroachments of other cultures, including Christian influences. This would fit Varg Vikernes' openly Nazi position)

The irony is similar to that which has lead some people, like Ian McKay, to reject the "straight edge" label, since part of the motive of straight edge was to resist peer pressue, but a symptom of early DC/Boston/and NYC hardcore scenes was violence by sXe guys against non-straight edgers, and adopting the lifestyle because that is what one's friends did.
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2009, 10:36:00 AM »

Though I'm a very firm atheist, I've never encountered any annoying religious people.  To the contrary, I've taken every opportunity to study with Jehovah's Witnesses when I was a teenager, for the main purpose of improving my conversational English (I came from Russia when I was 10) and bettering my American-level social skills (I became a hikikomori shortly after coming here).  Very good people.

If communism or (secular) Zionism can count as religions, on the other hand, then don't get my started...  :x
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2009, 10:43:46 AM »

Though I'm a very firm atheist, I've never encountered any annoying religious people.  To the contrary, I've taken every opportunity to study with Jehovah's Witnesses when I was a teenager, for the main purpose of improving my conversational English (I came from Russia when I was 10) and bettering my American-level social skills (I became a hikikomori shortly after coming here).  Very good people.

If communism or (secular) Zionism can count as religions, on the other hand, then don't get my started...  :x


Fundamentalists are interesting, not annoying. Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, etc, the more fundamentalist, the more I will want to know just what the hell is going on in your mind! It is vastly more likely that I will read history of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, and its off-shoots, than I would read one about the history of something boring, like the Church of England.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2009, 10:54:03 AM »

There were a couple of Witnesses who used to come to my house several times a week, usually when I was busy. I tried being polite and explaining thatI had my own belief system and would prefer they did not come by. When leaving one said "I will pray for you." I answered "Thanks - I'll sacrifice a chicken for you."

They never came back.
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2009, 10:59:15 AM »

Fundamentalists are interesting, not annoying. Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, etc, the more fundamentalist, the more I will want to know just what the hell is going on in your mind! It is vastly more likely that I will read history of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, and its off-shoots, than I would read one about the history of something boring, like the Church of England.

Interesting and annoying are not mutually exclusive.  I find it interesting that there are people who think I deserve to burn in hell and some of my favorite activities should be legally banned, that the world is only 6,000 years old and feminists are the spawn of Satan, but they're also pretty darn annoying. 
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2009, 11:03:08 AM »

There were a couple of Witnesses who used to come to my house several times a week, usually when I was busy. I tried being polite and explaining thatI had my own belief system and would prefer they did not come by. When leaving one said "I will pray for you." I answered "Thanks - I'll sacrifice a chicken for you."

They never came back.

The British comedian Jasper Carrot said that he likes to invite witnesses in, 'cause they are so surprised by not being turned away, that you can convert them to anything, and have them leave carrying the Satanic bible with them!
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« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2009, 11:04:42 AM »

Fundamentalists are interesting, not annoying. Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, etc, the more fundamentalist, the more I will want to know just what the hell is going on in your mind! It is vastly more likely that I will read history of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, and its off-shoots, than I would read one about the history of something boring, like the Church of England.

Interesting and annoying are not mutually exclusive.  I find it interesting that there are people who think I deserve to burn in hell and some of my favorite activities should be legally banned, that the world is only 6,000 years old and feminists are the spawn of Satan, but they're also pretty darn annoying. 

Well, I suppose that when its interesting is when you can go out and find out about it yourself, but when it is annoying is when someone is cramming it down your throat!
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2009, 01:13:35 PM »

A couple minor nitpicks:

... the world is only 6,000 years old ...

It is, roughly, if the "world" is a metaphor for human civilization.  Why is it more rational to define the age of the world by the age of this planet (which formed slowly and was pretty boring for most of its existence), or even the age of the universe (which might predate the Big Bang)?


and feminists are the spawn of Satan

That's 100% true, figuratively speaking.  :lol:
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« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2009, 01:20:11 PM »

... the world is only 6,000 years old ...

It is, roughly, if the "world" is a metaphor for human civilization.

It's not. 
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« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2009, 01:33:44 PM »

When i was younger my parents enrolled me in a "CCD" class.  I'm not sure what it stands for, but it was basically catholic religious education, and a prerequisite for "confirmation" which is some sort of religious ritual.  I was confirmed later on, and i still don't know what the hell its all about.  Basically the teacher of my CCD  liked to turn the class into some spectacle of who can be the most moral and righteous.  I was sort of oblivious to the world around me as many children are, and really paid no attention to the class and daydreamed the whole time.  One day the teacher tried to question examine how righteous i was, but i basically unintentionally flustered her by my lack of interest.  I didn't openly reject her views, i just remember thinking that i didn't care who she was, and was confused about why she was angry.  So she got all puffed up and mad and started yelling at me about how i am disrespectful.  I sat with my usual blank stare while she twisted herself into a knot of emotion.  

Two things stand out exceedingly vividly in my memory..   One, that i never really stopped daydreaming while she was yelling at me, which is probably what pissed her off.  And two, that later that night was one of the first times i engaged in some comprehensive, objective thought.  I recalled that night that the lady was angry at me, but that i had never really acknowledged her.  Gears started to turn in my head, and i basically though.. those people are fake, i don't want to be a part of that system.  

I told my mom that i did not want to go any more, but for whatever reason i continued to until confirmation.  Every day after that i started to notice more and more evidence of the darker side of organized religion.  Obviously there are some really amazing people that are also religion.. its just that the little details of wickedness build up over time.

So in retrospect, an angry and confused religious person helped spawn my distaste for organized religion, and my apathy towards those who are aggressively righteous.

I guess the memory itself is positive on the whole, but that mean old lady was really a peice of work.  
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« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2009, 01:59:09 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2009, 02:21:16 PM »

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"Satanism" as being a belief in or respect for nature, plus an individualism, the rise of the individual over religion, the law, and morality.

Yeah that's modern satanism

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Um? A 37 year old gir? OK, I can call hot twenty-something-year-olds girls, but 37 seems to be pushing it!

Actually they were a hermaphrodite
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« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2009, 03:14:27 PM »

A Pentecostal hag who desperately wanted me to strangle her in my kitchen.

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