For too many people being "on God's team" means being as obnoxious as humanly possible about it.
There is nothing wrong with being proud of what you have but there are limits to everything.
I am proud of my cock but you won't catch me wearing pants where my shit is just hanging out of the front.
Do you know why? Because that would be obnoxious.
In fact, being obnoxious about what you're proud of often comes across like you are trying to distract people from paying attention to something else.
Grandstanding Jesus freaks operate on the same principle.
The more fervor I come across as having it may just distract attention away from some other aspect of my life that I want to go unnoticed.
Thank God most people that identify with being Christians in the 21 st century are what I call lunch wagon (insert religion of choice here).
These are the religious people that act like their religious dogma are entrees on a buffet table and they just pick and chose what they want to accept and leave the rest for someone else.
Self-proclaimed Christians nowadays still believe in Jesus Christ but that doesn't mean that they aren't open to other perspectives on things.
There are Christians all over that believe in Karma and Reincarnation and whatnot.
They didn't get that from the bible.
They believe in heaven and hell but they also believe that being condemned to hell has a lot more to do with the content of ones character than whether or not they had premarital sex or attend Sunday mass.
They didn't get that from the bible either.
And although I truly believe these lunch wagon religious folk make up the vast majority of those who claim a religious affiliation there are still those old school, the wearing my cock on the outside of my clothes type, religious freaks that still cause a lot of grief for people.
A woman was fired from her job because her employers wanted her out of the office before the Christmas season because "her mere presence in the workplace would ruin her co-worker's holidays."
She was member of the Baha'I faith and if you know anything about the Baha'I faith you know that they take the approach to this problem of multiple manifestations of God that all religious figures are equally authentic messengers of God.
Well according to her co-workers "that was not Christian enough".
I mean God damn, she acknowledged that Jesus was a manifestation of God didn't she?
What else do you want?
Co-workers repeatedly told her that they were praying for her soul as they dismissed her and her office manager actually gave her a framed picture of Jesus to hang on her wall.
The lawsuit she filed claims that her actual termination noticed contained a letter from her supervisor that read, 'Realize why Jesus came. Recognize his Holy Name. Receive Jesus Christ into your heart. Rely on Jesus everyday.'"
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in the terms and conditions of employment based on religion in companies with 15 or more employees. The Tennessee Human Rights Act prohibits religious discrimination for employers with eight or more employees.
So they are fucked any which way you want to look at it.
I know I know, this anti-discrimination based on religion law is yet another evil liberal tool to keep religion out of the workplace just like those heathen liberals did to the public schools and public parks and the federal court house steps with that nice little ten commandments thing we built.damn liberals.
You know it was only 37 years ago when states were allowed to discriminate against interracial couples getting married on the grounds that it was considered bestiality.
Nowadays I don't even think Dubya would agree that interracial marriage is wrong in the eyes of God.
At least I hope he wouldn't. I doubt he knows many black republicans that aren't married to white women.
But nevertheless that was the conservative tune they were playing 37 years ago much like the "homosexual marriage is wrong in the eyes of God" tune they are playing today.
In other words, conservatives tend to be a little slow to come around.
Well the reason liberals are always on yours ass is because society doesn't always have the luxury of giving you 37-40 years to come around and catch up to the rest of us.
We are tired of hearing you and Trent Lott and the rest apologizing today for what you believed in 40 years earlier.
So if you don't understand why religious discrimination or discrimination based on sexual preference is wrong today, trust me, you may in a few decades or so.