“God was really pissed off last week.”
Then:
“He took Reggie White, then he did some ethnic cleansing in Asia…”
:eek:
I wanted to say something, but I think the ignorance has a stronghold on this guy.
The latter comment being followed by a smug smirk on said cow-orker’s pasty white face, I take it?
Yeah, I’d say you’re right. In fact, he’s not in a bubble of ignorance, but rather a hermetically sealed, titanium plated, laser guided, windowless starship of ignorance.
Ya know, we really should start keeping track of folks like this. We should get a server on Rackspace, create an interface to a database and develop a “Do Not Breed” list. We’ve gotta keep the “God told me they had it comin’” crowd out of the gene pool somehow.
I’m reading “By Permission of Heaven” - a book about the Great London fire. Seems like many of those 17th century Londoners thought they were being punished by God. And I get pissed off reading that people had that attitude back then. There’s just no excuse for that kind of thing in the 21st century. I mean, if you want to think that God is going around killing folks off because they offend him in some way, then for Pete’s sake, at least keep it to yourself.
“Ethnic cleansing in Asia”? ‘Taking’ Reggie White because he was pissed off? Does this sorry excuse for a human being think God wants the white man to rule the world or something?
Personally, I’d say something to the cow-orker. Something like “That’s totally inappropriate for the workplace. I’m reporting this.” Run, don’t walk, to your supervisor and tell him/her what was said. I’d say a firing is justified.
…but nothing a good WHACK upside the head couldn’t momentarily fix. Well, OK, it might not fix it, but it would make you feel a whole lot better.
You should explain to him that God kills indiscriminately, he is an equal-opportunity avenger. He only seems to kill more black and brown people because there are so much more of them in the world, and they are easier to kill. White people have those pesky vaccines and technology and well-organized emergency response systems, which I’m sure vex God to no end.
Besides, what was your co-workers reaction when God took out that redneck guitar player earlier this month? Did he even mention it?
“Redneck guitar player?” KGS, I think you’re stooping to the level of the offender.
Nope. He was totally serious. He’s somewhat hardcore about God for some odd reason, but making fun of foreigners is ok. As well as taking “them” out. The mindset is, “just level the fucking place”. Every other statement that comes out of his mouth is :rolleyes:.
I usually just say “in your opinion”, in a snappy way. But I don’t know what to say about this. I was actually pretty shocked, and I can take some of the worst jokes, but this is nothing to joke about. He’s been reported by others before. It’s only a matter of time. It’s hard to reason with someone who thinks that children should “fear” God. Even more so with someone who doesn’t really care who’s around when yapping off about stupid shit he knows nothing about (why he was reported in the first place). You really shouldn’t try to be “buddy buddy” with the guy who’s origin is from the Middle East in the cubicle down the way, only to say something to the effect of leveling the country he came from behind his back.
All the more reason to report his little exchange. Judging from what you wrote in your follow-up post, this isn’t an isolated incident. You should report him to spare yourself from further crapola. And you might hope that this guy will make some major attitude adjustments once he’s been reprimanded or canned.
Indeed. . . There are a lot of derogatory terms I could think someone might apply to D.D., but “redneck?” Shyte, might as well call him a hippie - it’s as accurate a description.
Unless KGS is whooshing, there’s a beautiful irony with respect to the thread title.
Well, I just said it in Colophon’s thread, but since I was yelling it am my computer the other night, I think I’ll say it again:
Salt of the Earth my ass!!!
The scary thing is not just that people think god thinks like this, but they whorship (hell, claim to love) a god who thinks like that.
Ask him what the hell he thinks John 3:16 actually means (actually, John 3:17 too.)
Ask your cow-orker what God had against Reggie White. IIRC, White was a minister and one who put his foot in his mouth, at least once, railing against gays. Maybe this is Gods way of saying that s/he is okay with gays.
You could hope. But more likely this is the type of person who would see reprimanding or firing as persecution for his beliefs. I don’t have a whole lot of faith in changing someone like this. Avoid him like the plague.
He mumbled something about the UN bitching, don’t know about what though. Then something about, “how about a 9.0 earthquake to even things out”. Even what? Must be payback for the Indonesian war of 1985 :rolleyes:. The mindset here, I think, is that there is America, and them. He must have no understanding of geography. He even said, “who’s to say that Korea wasn’t testing a nuclear missile?” Picture a serious face here folks! I hope this isn’t most people in the U.S. I think I’m gonna record some audio of this stuff and post in on SA, the comments are too funny not to be heard! The real tragedy here, is that he has two kids.
ParentalAdvisory, if you weren’t talking about a man instead of a woman, I’d swear we worked at the same place. I have a coworker who says stupid shit like this all the time. While my personal favorite was her 10-minute speech on how God is preparing to cause California to sink into the ocean because “that’s where all them gays live”, her most recent gem was pretty good in its own right.
Business is slow, and we’re all standing around in the back talking. The topic of the tsunamis is brought up. ChristianWoman™ starts things off with an innocuous comment: “I sure do feel sorry for those people. You know, yesterday they found a baby floating dead in a pool of water.” Nods of somber agreement. CW™ shakes her head and continues, “you know, when something like this happens, I don’t know how there can be people out there who don’t believe that there’s a God.”
…what?
I try to decide if I should say something. I’ve almost made up my mind to let it pass, but then the rest of my coworkers chip in with: nods of somber agreement. Okay, that clinches it. I can live with one idiot, but if these people actually think this is a valid argument, ignorance must be fought.
Me: “Wait a minute. I’m supposed to be more inclined to believe in God because babies die for no reason?”
Now, don’t get me wrong here. I’m an agnostic, and I don’t think that belief in a God in general is an irrational stance. But saying that the random killing of babies is additional evidence toward the existence of a sentient, active and loving God stands among the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. Seriously, what kind of response is this argument expected to receive? “You know, back when I thought that good things came to the virtuous and the unjust were punished according to their sins, I was a staunch atheist. But now that I realize that innocent children die in unpreventable natural distasters, I am filled with spirituality. As I stare at the lifeless body of some poor mother’s little baby, truly I can feel the love of God flow through me. Indeed, I am now a new man.”
Her response, after five solid seconds of shocked sputtering: “Well they’re guaranteed a place in heaven, Roland. It’s God’s will that sometimes the innocent have to suffer along with the sinners.”
Me: “All right, that’s a valid belief, but do you see where it isn’t exactly self-evident? If anything, that sort of thing would have to be a test of faith, rather than an affirmation of it.”
Her [while storming off]: “You can believe whatever you want. Don’t be talking about my faith.”
Me: “No problem; I wasn’t.”
Oh well. You win some, you lose some. I guess when logic is one of the principles you feel inclined to uphold, you’re going to run into a lot of brick walls.
Logic is to the religious as sunlight to vampires.
Not so much that I didn’t know, just not sure what his stance on it was. My guess was that he didn’t like the UN (Egeland) saying that we should have donated more.
Yep. 
Couldn’t agree more! Not all those whom are religious, but the deeply, insanely religious (Hatred of homosexuals, no sex before marriage (WTF?), those who force Jesus on you, and types like Roland Orzabal mentioned…) It should be in the next version of DSM, with a strict set of criteria.
I find it rather ironic that Reggie White used to rant against gays, claiming they lived a sick lifestyle that led to a very short life expectancy for them.
And now he is dead, at age 43!
What goes around comes around, I guess.
To quote Bart Simpson, “The ironing is delicious.”
[sub]“That’s irony, you blockhead.”–Lisa Simpson[/sub]
I don’t know whether I could stop myself from saying, “Your god sucks.”