When fundies accidentally witness...

[ilovetchotchkes]

The funniest one i've ever seen in a local grocery store was a van, literally plastered with "abortion killz teh baybeez" bumper stickers... and next to each one was a "I LUV MAI GUNZ" bumper sticker.

I almost died laughing. I didn't take a picture because if someone is that open about their gun ownership, what'd they do if I took a picture of their car...

There's also a fake Jew that works at the Meijer (like walmart but treats its employees marginally less shitty- friend of ours works there) that I go to. At least I think they work there, they're always there in the weekday mornings when I shop with the kids. Somewhere I have the picture of the back of the car. Its got stars of david on it and it says "Yesuhua the Messiah" in Hebrew.

[BelieveinScience]

I saw a driver with a bumper sticker "jesus used his turn signal". Did she use her turn signal? Nope! And before that she was tail gating me then flipped me off when she got around me because I wasn't going fast enough. We were in a tourist area with lots of people and the speed limit was 25mph not 50!!!!

[gezykah]

I use to supervise a group home for people with behavioral and developmental problems. In additional to the regular over night staff we also had sleep aids who had to be in the building but didn't have to work for six hours of their shift unless there was a crisis. One night when it was time for one of them to sleep he made a big show of saying he was a Christian and as a Christian he needed to read he Bible because that's what good Christians do. If I could've played drinking games at work I would've passed out from taking shots everytime he said Christian. So when he goes in the extra room to read his Bible before bed what does he do? He turns the TV on and searches for a scrambled channel. I heard some electronic static like noise so I went to the room he was in and saw him staring at a scrambled cable channel with his Bible wide open on the floor. Now I could almost see if he was a teenage boy in the 80's doing that but a grown man at work in the early 2000's, WTF? I had been planning on having a talk with him at the end of the shift but I ended up speaking to him then about the fact that while everyone was free to have their own belief system nobody should push their beliefs on others at work especially when working with young people. I didn't say anything about his TV viewing habits since he looked so embarrassed when I walked in that I had a feeling it wouldn't happen again.

Another time at that job a man who loved telling people he was a good Christian asked me to fix a computer he was trying to use. After playing around with it for a bit I realized what the problem was. When he should've been working he had gone on sites such as porn.com that he was flooded with pop-up ads and cookies from sketchy sites. At first when I talked to him about it he claimed he was just working. Then I had to point out to him that I know more about computers than him otherwise he wouldn't have asked me to fix it for him.

I've had numerous situations like at workplaces and in college where people who made the biggest spectacle out of their belief system would cheat, lie, plagiarize, etc and often would get away with it because they were such good Christians. Like in college when a girl plagiarized one of my papers. When the professor found out he called me first and threatened to get me expelled. I discussed with him why it should be obvious that she copied my paper without my permission. I called and let her know that she needed to call him immediately and admit what she did otherwise the next morning I'd forward proof of what she did to a ton of people including the coach for the sports team she played on. About an hour later I got a call from the professor saying she confessed claiming that she's a good Christian who had never done anything like that before and I didn't know what she was doing. He then said I was off the hook and not only was she not punished but she got a few extra weeks to finish her assignment.

[tankgirl]

I once knew a women who wisely said, if you feel you can't be courteous and watch your temper on the road, then don't place advertisements for your religion on your car, cause it makes more then just you look like an ass. I never put a sticker of a group I didn't want to makelook bad, by my occassional bad driving on my car after that :oops:

I got hit by a car that ran, I followed them, while on the phone with the police, I almost shit myself laughing at the fact they had pro-life and Christian bumperstickers all over their car. I mean what swell Christians, that pull out of McDonald's, without looking, hit a car, noticeably hit might I add, then speed through a light and take off, never stopping. Gods lil snowflakes, ugh!

[bananacat]

That car owner is allegedly pro-life, but what about the lives will be lost from his pro-gun and anti-Obama stances? Even the pro-religion one could cause plenty of deaths, and has in the path. But I guess actual living people dying because they lack affordable medical care is less of a tragedy than a woman having sex without getting punished.

[over-thinker]

I see all kinds of those bumper stickers where I live. Major dick waving going on.

[freejoytoo]

I take issue with anyone who has bumper stickers, full stop.

[LilMissMetaphor]

To be fair, I hate it when people bother me at my house, and I can't "hush up" my dogs if someone is on my porch or in my yard. They're going to bark. Heck, I want them to bark when strange people come around. I'm not going to be nasty to a kid, but I have said all manner of ridiculous things to adults that didn't leave at the first "no thanks." Up to and including, "Jesus wants you to get off of my lawn." I really don't think people have an obligation to leave their home and talk to someone who is trying to sell them something.

Oh here you are, I was looking for you. Well, just wondering where you'd been really.

[StacyW]

I wish I could say this, but I tend more to notice when people who are otherwise very nice turn out to have whacko beliefs, and then I'm disillusioned.

[Seven Severn]

In my hometown there used to be a station wagon that was covered with "pro-life" stickers. There were always lots of little kids inside it crawling around. If the driver ever had to stop suddenly lots of kids would have been thrown through the windshield.

[Katydid]

I was about 6 months along and in my OB's waiting room, when another pregnant woman walked in. I started to make small talk, and she was INTENSELY rude. She mentioned that she had 6 children already, so I said I loved big families and she just gave me this *sneer*. She was wearing a long skirt and long sleeve shirt, and was basically wearing the fundie uniform. I was just being friendly, and she was far ruder than just the regular, "Don't bother me" rude. I wasn't being pushy, either. But yeah, that was my big experience with a fundie.

I also, while young and dumb, approached two Mennonite girls in the food court at the mall. I tried really hard to be respectful, and I asked them about their hair coverings. They were incredibly sweet and explained it. I thanked them, and they said, "Have a wonderful day!"

The difference between the two experiences was kind of shocking.

[julie paradox]

... She mentioned that she had 6 children already, so I said I loved big families and she just gave me this *sneer*. ...

Well, of course she did. You obviously hadn't learned your lines properly!

[Gizmola]

My personal fav was a mini-van that tried to run me off the road after having tailgated me all the way down an off-ramp. I drive a Miata so I was a little nervous about this mini-van that seemed to be doing everything it could to kill me.

When it drove past I saw the bumper sticker: "Friends Don't Let Friends Die Without Jesus"

Classic

[Just_Jane]

I had a van tailgating me in heavy, city traffic. then he went around me and cut me off all while giving me the middle finger. he was driving the van for the Christian radio station with the radio station's logo all painted on the sides and back of the van. I was almost tempted to call in on the caller/request line.

[luckystone]

That's really interesting. We had a similar experience. A headscarved woman driving fast on a highway was holding and talking on her phone - not cool. My headship commented about how she thinks she's a good person and god likes her because she wears something on her head, and that things like obeying road rules to be safe to her passengers and other drivers don't matter at all.

[DarkAnts]

I came to a realization over the summer. People in cars dont see the other people in cars. You see the car but you hardly ever see the actual driver. So, some people start to treat the other cars like objects. They dont remember that there are people in the other car. They forget to treat others like they want to be treated. I doubt that these people would act that way if they did not have a car buffer between them and the outside world.

Its helped me deal with frustrations on the road and becoming a better driver. .