# Why, you sanctimonious little whore. Don't you use scare tactics on me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624 "2005-01-02T02:30:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/21 "2005-01-02T06:30:57Z")
WOOO!! I AM MASTURBATING LIKE A MOTHER FUCk!!! ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/22 "2005-01-02T12:03:37Z")
There are some threads where people have raised this sort of problem before, and other posters have suggested truly witty, well deserved and (I would expect) effective responses to this sort of harassment. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any search terms with which to find same. Maybe someone else can point you in the right direction. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/23 "2005-01-02T12:24:34Z")
A few months after my son comitted suicide, a woman I worked with sent me a e-mail “parable” concerning a teenager who died before being “saved” therefore, going to Hell. I was shocked that anyone could be so cruel. I confronted her, hoping it was just a thoughtless forward. No, indeed she felt it her duty to make sure I knew the “facts.” The only fact I knew at that moment, was that if I hit her, the consequences would outweigh the satisfaction I’d feel when she hit the floor. I just reported the non-business use of e-mail to the owner of the company, showing him the e-mail. He had her in his office for an hour and she came out crying. That still wasn’t as good as watching her hit the floor would have been, but better than nothing. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/24 "2005-01-02T14:47:42Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Never knew the Lord was such a petty, sneering, vengeful sort. Have you _read_ the book? ---
**Author:** ![cj\_finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@cj\_finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cj_finn)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/25 "2005-01-02T15:00:47Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > And if Satan is really that much of a problem, why can’t God just disappear him out of existence? Ya know, this is the problem right here. Last time I checked, good ol’ Dios (not you, you cynic), was both all-knowing AND all-powerful. So god does have the power to disappear the devil. Since god created everything and everybody, and since she knew before hand what the plan was, god knows what shite is going to happen and what the “devil” will be up to. Its all planned. The god of the bible is a twisted fuck if you ask me. Of course my own personal gods are perfect. If you doubt me, you’re going to go to hell. CJ, the poster formerly known as JOB ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/26 "2005-01-02T16:29:15Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > A few months after my son comitted suicide, a woman I worked with sent me a e-mail “parable” concerning a teenager who died before being “saved” therefore, going to Hell. > I was shocked that anyone could be so cruel. I confronted her, hoping it was just a thoughtless forward. > No, indeed she felt it her duty to make sure I knew the “facts.” > The only fact I knew at that moment, was that if I hit her, the consequences would outweigh the satisfaction I’d feel when she hit the floor. > I just reported the non-business use of e-mail to the owner of the company, showing him the e-mail. > He had her in his office for an hour and she came out crying. That still wasn’t as good as watching her hit the floor would have been, but better than nothing. What a horrible nasty bitch. I do hope she was fired, although tarring and feathering would be a minor punishment. The cruelty of some of these so-called “christians” in the name of “spreading the gospel” never ceases to amaze me. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/27 "2005-01-02T18:18:31Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > A few months after my son comitted suicide, a woman I worked with sent me a e-mail “parable” concerning a teenager who died before being “saved” therefore, going to Hell. > I was shocked that anyone could be so cruel. I confronted her, hoping it was just a thoughtless forward. > No, indeed she felt it her duty to make sure I knew the “facts.” > The only fact I knew at that moment, was that if I hit her, the consequences would outweigh the satisfaction I’d feel when she hit the floor. > I just reported the non-business use of e-mail to the owner of the company, showing him the e-mail. > He had her in his office for an hour and she came out crying. That still wasn’t as good as watching her hit the floor would have been, but better than nothing. A couple months after my dad’s suicide my boss and another co-worker decided to tell me to my face where they thought my dad ended up. Then my boss, who was training at the time to become a pastor, saw my face and backed off a little. He said that my dad might not be in hell but it was for sure that he was suffering after death. I just told them that that was their opinion but the God I believed in forgave everyone and if you believed you’d end up where you were supposed to be. THen I left the room and cried. Not my favorite day! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/28 "2005-01-02T19:12:23Z")
What could people who do that possibly be trying to accomplish, by telling a grieving person that their loved one is burning in hell? I don’t get that mindset one freakin’ little bit - why would someone who professes to be a Christian try to hurt another human being for no reason? That is some particularly un-Christlike behaviour. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/29 "2005-01-02T19:27:06Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > What could people who do that possibly be trying to accomplish, by telling a grieving person that their loved one is burning in hell? I don’t get that mindset one freakin’ little bit - why would someone who professes to be a Christian try to hurt another human being for no reason? That is some particularly un-Christlike behaviour. Superiority complex. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/30 "2005-01-02T19:33:10Z")
Some of the fundies are so wrapped up in the I’m Right You’re Wrong that they seize on ANY chance to convert the heathens, many times without thought as to the appropriateness of the situation. I mean, who has thought, “My father died without accepting Christ as his personal savior! He’s in hell, my co-worker said so. I must hie myself off to the nearest church to escape the same fate.” And yet, for some fundies, that’s exactly the reaction they’re expecting. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/31 "2005-01-02T19:43:44Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > A couple months after my dad’s suicide my boss and another co-worker decided to tell me to my face where they thought my dad ended up. Then my boss, who was training at the time to become a pastor, saw my face and backed off a little. He said that my dad might not be in hell but it was for sure that he was suffering after death. > I just told them that that was their opinion but the God I believed in forgave everyone and if you believed you’d end up where you were supposed to be. THen I left the room and cried. Not my favorite day! YOUR BOSS did that? HOLY FUCK. I hope you don’t work there anymore. I don’t know if I could have ever taken directions from him ever again if that had been me. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/32 "2005-01-02T21:58:57Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by luluBahrain > A couple months after my dad’s suicide my boss and another co-worker decided to tell me to my face where they thought my dad ended up. Then my boss, who was training at the time to become a pastor, saw my face and backed off a little. He said that my dad might not be in hell but it was for sure that he was suffering after death. > I just told them that that was their opinion but the God I believed in forgave everyone and if you believed you’d end up where you were supposed to be. THen I left the room and cried. Not my favorite day! I wish I had as much restraint as you did then. I would have kicked him in the teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/33 "2005-01-02T22:12:06Z")
I think that on-the-job religious harassment has gotten a lot worse in the last twenty years. And certainly such confrontations as have been described here – especially during a time of grief – would have been unthinkable for Christians when I was growing up in the 1950’s. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/34 "2005-01-02T22:54:56Z")
When I was in hospital getting ready to lose a 22 week fetus, all the sanctimonius assholes of right to lifers seemed to focus on was woman in hospital, proceedure scheduled for the next morning, and 22 weeks. Obviously I was in for an abortion, so they tag-team yelled at me for 45 minutes with the fucking nursing sisters ignoring my ringing for those bitches to come and remove these twats from my room and then my worthy of sainthood OB-GYN walked in and read them the riot act. He then called and arranged for me to be transferred to a different hospital, and removed his practice [of 7 partners] from the hospital. HE also paid out of his own pocket for everything in the new hospital, and helped me sue the previous hospital. He was more than a little irked that the hospital let these idiots in, and let them romp through patient files at the desk so they could go lecture evil fallen women like me… Never ever go to a catholic hospital if you arent hard line catholic and delivering rather than losing a fetus. Yes, there are catholic fundies out there as well… ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/35 "2005-01-02T23:07:56Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > YOUR BOSS did that? HOLY FUCK. I hope you don’t work there anymore. I don’t know if I could have ever taken directions from him ever again if that had been me. It’s a state job so it took a couple more things to happen to get me transferred out but I don’t work directly under him anymore. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/36 "2005-01-02T23:08:55Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I mean, who has thought, “My father died without accepting Christ as his personal savior! He’s in hell, my co-worker said so. I must hie myself off to the nearest church to escape the same fate.” > > And yet, for some fundies, that’s exactly the reaction they’re expecting. Exactly. Whereas my reaction…and I suspect the reaction of many…at the thought of a loved one suffering in hell (any loved one but my lord, certainly a child) is “I’d rather suffer with them.” That and “I want no part of a god who lets them suffer.” What sort of heaven can there be if you know your child is suffering? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/37 "2005-01-03T01:05:37Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > When I was in hospital getting ready to lose a 22 week fetus, all the sanctimonius assholes of right to lifers seemed to focus on was woman in hospital, proceedure scheduled for the next morning, and 22 weeks. Obviously I was in for an abortion, so they tag-team yelled at me for 45 minutes with the fucking nursing sisters ignoring my ringing for those bitches to come and remove these twats from my room and then my worthy of sainthood OB-GYN walked in and read them the riot act. He then called and arranged for me to be transferred to a different hospital, and removed his practice [of 7 partners] from the hospital. HE also paid out of his own pocket for everything in the new hospital, and helped me sue the previous hospital. He was more than a little irked that the hospital let these idiots in, and let them romp through patient files at the desk so they could go lecture evil fallen women like me… > > Never ever go to a catholic hospital if you arent hard line catholic and delivering rather than losing a fetus. Yes, there are catholic fundies out there as well… Good for your doctor! May I ask the particulars of the lawsuit? Did you sue both the hospitals and the right-to-lifers? I’m very sorry for your loss as well. I can’t imagine going through a miscarriage and having to justify yourself to a bunch of strangers. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/38 "2005-01-03T01:34:44Z")
I’d comment on how outrageous the e-mail was but there are not enough minutes in my day to justify reading it. I suggest you do what I do: once you realize that it’s one of _those_ types of e-mails, hit the “delete” key and carry on with your life. That way you don’t have to expend the energy to work up a good case of righteous indignation. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/39 "2005-01-03T02:22:00Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I’d comment on how outrageous the e-mail was but there are not enough minutes in my day to justify reading it. I suggest you do what I do: once you realize that it’s one of _those_ types of e-mails, hit the “delete” key and carry on with your life. That way you don’t have to expend the energy to work up a good case of righteous indignation. The second step, which you leave out for some reason, is to place the sender on whatever serves as a killfile in your email client. Plonking a loser is a good way to avoid further hassle and get a quick jolt of righteous satisfaction at the prospect of ensuring your inbox’s future usefulness. If your client doesn’t have any filtering capability, install one that does and tell me about it, that I may point and laugh at the most primitive POS still connected to a server. If you must occasionally get email from that person, your client should be able to filter on content like ‘Jesus’ and ‘damned’ and ‘kitten’ that is unlikely to show up in sanity- or work-related email. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624/40 "2005-01-03T02:49:15Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > It’s a state job so it took a couple more things to happen to get me transferred out but I don’t work directly under him anymore. Wait…WHAT!? Your public servant boss told you to your face that your dead father was burning in Hell and you didn’t report him to the appropriate state office and get his ass busted down to Chief Muckraker in Charge of Bakersfield Sewage Treatment Plant? If my supervisor ever did that to me (I work for the state of Pennsylvania, and my entertainingly acerbic boss would never do that, but hypothetically…) I would be on the phone to Harrisburg before she got back to her office. Were there ANY consequences to such a horrible breach of appropriate behavior? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-you-sanctimonious-little-whore-dont-you-use-scare-tactics-on-me/282624.md?page=3)