Real Life Fundie Encounters - Part 3

[Stickboi]

8 hours ago, Tim-Tom Biblethumper said:

Ouch!  Did anyone come to your aid?

No, but I was fine.  

[ITD]

On March 11, 2016 at 0:16 PM, sawasdee said:

Satan's doorknobs?

Would that make breasts Satan's Knockers?

 

 

[felinefundie]

I love reading this thread because it allows me to picture the blissful parts of the world where LDS missionaries are a rare and peculiar sighting. In my particular geographical location of choice, you can't make two left turns without running into a Mormon. 

In other news I saw a VW Bus completely covered in bible verses and various "Jesus Saves!" "Christ is our King!" -type sayings the other day. I didn't get a great look at the people inside the vehicle, but I always do appreciate the types of people who find it necessary to plaster Jesus-y things all over their vehicle. Especially when the vehicle is mostly thought of as a hippie van. 

[Jucifer]

Someone around here drives a car with religious stuff written all over it. I took a picture of it once but I killed that phone with diet coke. I would post it otherwise. 

The gist of this person's message was something like "90% of Christians are going to end up in hell because they don't follow the particular religious doctrines that I do. " He/she used a percentage.  I always wondered about the mathematics behind that.

For some reason I kept seeing this car in the parking lot whenever I would go grocery shopping. This person and I must have been on the same schedule. 

I haven't seen the car lately. I wonder if the driver is OK. I kind of feel like I know him or her from reading the messages over the years...

Edited June 24, 2016 by Jucifer

[nastyhobbitses]

Went out to my favorite outdoor produce market yesterday. There was a Christian street preacher standing on a stool yelling at the top of his lungs about Jesus, a group of very mild-mannered Jehovah's Witnesses with their little pamphlet cart a couple yards to his left, and a tent for a Muslim outreach organization just about two yards to his right. I turned to another person at the crosswalk and said, "dang, all we need is a rabbi and someone from one of the Hindu temples and we have ourselves a full set."

[TeddyBonkers]

I haven't seen them "in the wild" yet, but I drive past Nicole Naugler's Blessed Little Groomer's at least twice a week. It's only a matter of time before I report back here that I've been rear ended....

[SnazzyNazzy]

I saw A LOT of Mennonites, during my vacation. We went to Cedar Point for two days, and the place with teeming with them. Everywhere you looked, you would see a different family. I felt so bad for the girls in their dresses, because it was so humid and hot'ish. The skirt part seemed brilliant (lots of air flow), but the dress's material and elbow-length sleeves, didn't look overly "humidity-friendly".

We made a day-trip to Niagara Falls, and saw a few Mennonite families there. There were significantly more Mennonites at Cedar Point than at Niagara Falls, but there were enough at Niagara Falls, to be noticeable.

In totally shocking news, there were ZERO Mennonites at our weekend trip to Salem, MA. I figure that Mennonites and Witches, don't really mix.

For our week in CT, I didn't see any anywhere. They are kind of easy to spot, when they are out in the wild, so since I didn't see them, they must not exist.

We did an auto tour of Gettysburg Battleground, and I can't recall if I saw any or not. Between yelling at my kids, while yelling at idiot drivers, while trying to pay attention to the tour CD, my attention span was spent.

I did however, see a Mennonite girl, working at Mr Ed's Candy store, that is a bit aways from Gettysburg. She didn't directly deal with the customers, and seemed to hightail it back to the back, as soon as humanly possible. She was there one minute, and gone the next.

 

[anachronistic]

Last week I was at a wading pool/splash pad with the kids I nanny for. The 10'year old wanted to know what was up with the girls in long dresses, long sleeves, high necklines. (And dark stockings, but they went barefoot in the pool.) I could tell they were Orthodox Jewish people because the boys with them just wore regular shorts, t shirts and yarmulkes, but the mothers wore head coverings . I said that they belonged to a religion which believed that women were responsible for the way that men acted, and that by covering up, they were pleasing their God.  Some of my friends said I should have explained them without being judgmental, but the kids mom liked my explanation, and I don't see why I shouldn't pass judgment on things that I know contradict my nanny family's, and my, values. I also didn't stop her from staring, because I was staring, too, and it's not like a disability. They chose it.

[backyard sylph]

On 6/27/2016 at 9:47 PM, anachronistic said:

I also didn't stop her from staring, because I was staring, too, and it's not like a disability.

Well, if you were in their territory, they'd easily stare right back at you. We lived in Lakewood, NJ for a little over a year, in 2006 and 2007. Quite a lot of it is ultra-orthodox, famously, actually, and I think the young couple rented us the house they would eventually live in because they assumed we were religious with our large brood of kids. We were surrounded by these families. The older men would never speak to me, which took getting used to. And they'd watch all my movements at the store, etc., in a steady side-eyed fashion. The younger ones would speak, but avert their eyes. Some of the women would stare at us quite freely, even if they were otherwise friendly, and they never told their kids not to. I was interested in knowing more about them, but learned more by absorption than direct interaction.

Here's a story fragment for you: when we were moving out, the boys were searching through the basement to see if we'd missed anything, and an old porn magazine fell from the ceiling rafters. For some reason, my husband told the young male landlord about it, and it embarrassed him terrifically. I don't think it was his, but he felt responsible, and could not stop apologizing.

[LadyCrow1313]

On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 2:44 PM, Jucifer said:

Someone around here drives a car with religious stuff written all over it. I took a picture of it once but I killed that phone with diet coke. I would post it otherwise. 

The gist of this person's message was something like "90% of Christians are going to end up in hell because they don't follow the particular religious doctrines that I do. " He/she used a percentage.  I always wondered about the mathematics behind that.

For some reason I kept seeing this car in the parking lot whenever I would go grocery shopping. This person and I must have been on the same schedule. 

I haven't seen the car lately. I wonder if the driver is OK. I kind of feel like I know him or her from reading the messages over the years...

There's a local car here that drives around with a HUGE gold crown on the roof; as I've usually seen it on the highway it's hard to see if it's for a specifically religious purpose (but I'm sure that it is). I haven't seen this one in a while either, & I hope the person's ok.

On ‎6‎/‎20‎/‎2016 at 11:28 PM, ITD said:

Would that make breasts Satan's Knockers?

Or dirty pillows  

[PennySycamore]

I was eating out with my daughter and granddaughter tonight at Applebee's in Utica, NY.  At least one of the women in the next booth had on a ankle-length denim skirt and a another woman was wearing a head-covering.  None of the men were wearing kippot, so I think these were good old fashioned Xtian fun dies.

I never see head-covering women in SC;. I had to go to upstate NY for that!

[tumblr]

There is a car around here that has a few bible verses painted on, most of them are harmless ones about salvation but one of them is the Leviticus one 'against' homosexuality. I really want to snap a pic kissing my fiancé in front of it if I am being honest.  

[Gobbles]

The "craziest" thing I saw here from super religious people is a little fish on the back of the car. Really tiny. I would say they are too liberal for being considered fundie in the US, but for German means they are super religious. It is boring here when it comes to fundies... 

[PennySycamore]

At the barbecue that my daughter and her husband hosted for the Fourth, one family of guests were quiverfull. They had nine kids -17 to 7 months.  The mom told me they were open to as many as God gave them.

 

ETA:. They didn't seem too fundie though.  Regular swim suits,  attendance at a party when alcohol was consumed.  They might have even been drinking and smoking themselves.

 

Edited July 5, 2016 by PennySycamore

[WhatWouldJohnCrichtonDo?]

We know a family with 8 kids, who chose to "have as many children as God would let them", but I've never heard them use the phrase Quiver Full or quote the Bible verse from which that phrase comes. I've also never heard them say anything that pings my patriarchal or fundamentalist radar. I think quiverfull sometimes crosses other divisions.

Then again, they've moved to another state, and we haven't talked much lately...

[seattlechic]

OH.MY.GOD. I thought we were untouched by fundies in the lovely Pacific Northwest (exception of the Shupes), and this Sunday SHAZAM, there they were. Mr. Chic and I were waiting in line for breakfast at a very simple neighborhood joint (full of hippie servers, organic coffee and tofu for the unenlightened) and... Dad and four male kids wearing suits, and mamma wearing a half-calf length flower patterned (is there any other????) blue dress, with clear/whiteish pantyhose -dafuq- and patent leather pumps (short short heel, she ain't no how). OMG they really stood out like a sore thumb. This is Seattle people, NO ONE wears suits, or damn pantyhose, like EVER. Nope. 

Funny thing was that mom and dad were glued to their damn cellphones. Mr. Chic solemnly announced they might be reading scriptures lol. It was just very, very strange.

[kbohn23]

21 hours ago, seattlechic said:

OH.MY.GOD. I thought we were untouched by fundies in the lovely Pacific Northwest (exception of the Shupes), and this Sunday SHAZAM, there they were. Mr. Chic and I were waiting in line for breakfast at a very simple neighborhood joint (full of hippie servers, organic coffee and tofu for the unenlightened) and... Dad and four male kids wearing suits, and mamma wearing a half-calf length flower patterned (is there any other????) blue dress, with clear/whiteish pantyhose -dafuq- and patent leather pumps (short short heel, she ain't no how). OMG they really stood out like a sore thumb. This is Seattle people, NO ONE wears suits, or damn pantyhose, like EVER. Nope. 

Funny thing was that mom and dad were glued to their damn cellphones. Mr. Chic solemnly announced they might be reading scriptures lol. It was just very, very strange.

Any chance they were Mormon? I lived in Redmond, WA for a few years and there was a decent Mormon population there. 

[seattlechic]

2 hours ago, kbohn23 said:

Any chance they were Mormon? I lived in Redmond, WA for a few years and there was a decent Mormon population there. 

Hmmmmm.... not likely. There is an LDS temple close to the UW, but not where this cafe is. But who knows. Maybe they are LDS. 

[tumblr]

I ran into some LDS missionaries today while I was out catching Pokemon. We talked for a little while and they apologized for not having a Book of Mormon to offer me. They were both around my age and pretty chill honestly. I felt terrible for them though, they had to park about a mile from the house they were visiting for some unknown reason. 

[Swamptribe]

Mr. Tribe and I were heading to the dog beach this am.  Had to stop for a large group of motorcycles pulling into a church parking lot.  Thought maybe they were there for a special service or something  Nope, pull up a little more and the WBC is protesting across the street.   What a freak show, but was so thrilled to see the Patriot Guard out there.  At the beach, everyone was talking about it.  Seems the were protesting at several churches in the area.  At one point we joked about rounding up all the dogs and going back over there to counter protest. Or offer emotional support to the church goers.

[Tim-Tom Biblethumper]

On 7/10/2016 at 10:49 AM, Swamptribe said:

Nope, pull up a little more and the WBC is protesting across the street.  

What were they protesting this time?   

[Swamptribe]

16 hours ago, Tim-Tom Biblethumper said:

What were they protesting this time?   

Nobody was really sure.  They went to a couple of other churches the same day. Sometimes they just go into an area and harass churches and other places for attention.  None of the local news outlets covered them either. 

[BlackberryGirl]

Was driving out and about in our rural area and saw clear evidence of SOTDRT. I big striped tent obviously for a camp meeting/revival and a seemingly professionally printed BIG sign.  

 

                                                                  " Jesus Love You"

                                                                    "Bible is ture."  

 

 in what should have been just 7 words... a missed verb tense, a whole missing article (the) and the word "true," 4 whole letters misspelled.

[MarblesMom]

Aww, bless their hearts.  They tried

[Ungodly Grandma]

On 7/4/2016 at 2:16 PM, Gobbles said:

The "craziest" thing I saw here from super religious people is a little fish on the back of the car. Really tiny. I would say they are too liberal for being considered fundie in the US, but for German means they are super religious. It is boring here when it comes to fundies... 

Catholics often use fish b/c Jesus was a fisherman for souls, or something. There's always a little story to all these symbols! 

The Catholic marriage retreats used the fish, and gave it to attendees as well.