Is anyone else an atheist with BC besides me?

spookismom & miriander LOL

Can I still say "amen" to cardplayer's comment? Okay - I won't use something loaded with religious weight. I'll say "right on, sister"

I can see why your child likes the song.

If you haven't read the actual book- it is amazing-

That's just ghoulish.

🤣🤣

Perfect Miriandra. Thanks for posting

I’m doing better this year speaking up about not being a Christian. The last couple years I seemed to be plagued with women who were so over the top about their faith in God and how prayer helped them through every single crisis they went through, blah blah blah. These women act like they have all the answers to life, the answer being God, God and more God. I had to extricate myself from different situations because it was a main focus of their lives.

I think I mentioned that I told the garden club I was not Christian (the other eight women are). To their credit, they were accepting and not one has tried to get me to attend anything religious. Another time, at the Y, a man was talking to several of us women, and he made the comment about people in our area. He said, “It seems around here, you either believe in drugs or you believe in Jesus.” I said, “I don’t believe in either.” That surprised them all. I was asked what did I believe in and I said, “Love and compassion.”

Today at the pool, a woman I’d had several great conversations with before brought up something, I forget exactly how she said it, maybe something about how the Bible guides us, and I shook my head and let her know I did not profess to any religion and that I could have a good and wonderful life without it. Well, that knocked some wind out of her sails. I think she took for granted I was Christian. We continued talking, but it felt like she was having a hard time processing what I told her. She said, “so you don’t have a home church ?” and I said no. I mean, why would I? But I could tell it was a foreign concept to her that I, this nice middle aged woman from the pool, was not bubbling over with joy for the Lord like she was.

Please forgive me, but I am starting to like putting a pin in the balloon of these self important Christians who think their belief is the only way.

Agnostic here. Don’t know and will find out later - hopefully much later! It’s been liberating for me to not have a strong belief one way or another. I do have strong feelings about religion being in the schools, govt. and laws ( specifically abortion and LGBTQ laws: not happy at all to have Christians deciding on fundamental rights for people.)

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EWE! he is awful. so slimy and weird.

I am glad for your judgement and I hope you get something out of it. is there recourse if he doesn't re-instate you with backpay?

I hope all you leave him with is his tithe. He's the poster child for sleazy Christian.

We are in the "settlement phase" of the complaint. He has time to either reinstate us with backpay, or come up with a better incentive to make us go away. We have a hearing date before a labor judge set for mid-September. If we haven't come to a settlement on our own by then, we have to accept whatever the judge says.

Since we are in contract negotiations for the union, he is also under many other legal obligations by NLRB rules. He cannot withhold repairs or supplies to the workplace, he cannot declare bankruptcy or close the workplace, he cannot fire more union members for being union members - all these are considered retaliation against the union. Not that this has stopped him. He has allowed the studio to slide into disrepair. We used to have a team of over twenty therapists. We are now down to 2, and one is leaving at the end of the month. Instead of hiring new therapists, his manager has literally been referring clients to go to other studios.

Every time he breaks an NLRB rule, we file another report against him. I think the worst they can do is the federal gov can fine him for each infraction, but I don't think they can threaten jail or anything like that. On the plus side, the purpose of LLCs is to compartmentalize businesses, so the the downfall of one store won't bring down the others. But due to his management decisions - the manager over our studio also manages other studios he owns, moving inventory from our studio to other studios - he's diluted his LLCs. Which means, the government will be able to recoup penalties from his other studios and businesses that he hasn't been actively undermining. 🤣

Interesting statistic from the Harper' Index:

Percentage of U.S. Adults who identify as Christian: 65%

Percentage of members of Congress who identify as Christian: 90%

Great breakdown Miriandra. Certainly indicative of LOTS of the problems.