Pregame prayer

[sweetdaisy]

Good points, ECO. However, in all the years I've lived in Oklahoma (most of my life), not one person has ever come to my door to preach, sell their religion, or try to get me to convert. In fact, I ran into that in places NOT in the "bible belt", which I find a little amusing.

People complaining about the "Christian Agenda" just like to complain. Like you said, if they lived somewhere else, they'd be bitching about whatever regional issue resides there. And with it coming from SNSPoke, it has even less importance, as all he does is bitch about Oklahoma.

[jbrown84]

You can't go anywhere anymore without seeing these Christians cramming their lifestyle down our throats. Turn on TV right now.....you'll find numerous channels of this drivel. Drive down the street, you see endless buidlings and billboards filled with this silliness. Visit a strip mall, you'll find stores dedicated to it. Hit a basketball game, they start the night off with it. Now they want to put it in our schools.....with our KIDS!

A little sensitive are we?

Christians have the right to have stores in the mall, billboards, and TV channels just as much as anybody. I don't know how you can compare that to prayer at an NBA game (in that case I can concede there's an argument).

[Dave Cook]

IT WAS A JOKE, PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

Just making a mockery of the whole 'Homosexual Agenda' silliness that I hear people going on about....which ironically I only hear from Christians.

Tough room.....

[jbrown84]

Sorry should have seen that. Problem is there are crazies on both sides and there are people on this board who would make that statement in all seriousness.

And you make a good argument there, BTW. Just subsitute "Christian" with gay in my statement. But the right-wingers want a double standard.

[Midtowner]

The trouble 'round here is that it's difficult to tell whether someone is kidding along those lines. Heck... not too many years ago, some might recall a certain group of folks who actually thought I was hostile to religion.

For the record, it's stupid people I'm hostile to, not religious people

[fuzzytoad]

Good points, ECO. However, in all the years I've lived in Oklahoma (most of my life), not one person has ever come to my door to preach, sell their religion, or try to get me to convert. In fact, I ran into that in places NOT in the "bible belt", which I find a little amusing.

People complaining about the "Christian Agenda" just like to complain. Like you said, if they lived somewhere else, they'd be bitching about whatever regional issue resides there. And with it coming from SNSPoke, it has even less importance, as all he does is bitch about Oklahoma.

I get at least 3 "visits" per week. I can always count on an 8am doorbell ring pretty much every saturday..

If i *dare* to act annoyed at the fact that I've been woken up early saturday morning, I'm treated with the sort of regard you'd give someone who'd just taken a crap in your dining room..

Every weekday I come home to a front door with "Literature" crammed into the handle of my storm door.

My mailbox is crammed full of flyers and schedules.

So, with all due respect, excuse the EFF out of me for not wanting to have this crap shoved down my throat when I go to an NBA game I've paid to attend.

[Midtowner]

Do you live in Surrey Hills?

At any rate, you should relish the opportunity to screw with these people.

Also, isn't putting stuff in a mailbox a federal crime (unless you're a mailman?)??

[PennyQuilts]

So, with all due respect, excuse the EFF out of me for not wanting to have this crap shoved down my throat when I go to an NBA game I've paid to attend.

See, to me, having a prayer at a game is a completely different thing than having people come pester you at home. Being pestered at home is more akin to a telemarketing call at dinner time only worse, if that is possible. Getting irritated at that, I understand, especially if it happens all the time. Put a sign up on your door that proselytisers (sic) will go to hell or something.

I don't even see much of a connection between that and a pregame prayer. They may be the same general religion but probably they really don't resemble each other all that much when it comes down to it. A pregame prayer offers a tiny bit of social control. I wish they'd do that more at international soccer games. Something like, "Lord, help me to control my damned self after the game and not crush anyone in a mad rush to the field. And if I die in a crush, please take me straight to hell because I would deserve it for being stupid." Maybe that would help those idiots if they think about "What would Jesus do" if his team lost.

[bretthexum]

Do you live in Surrey Hills?

At any rate, you should relish the opportunity to screw with these people.

Also, isn't putting stuff in a mailbox a federal crime (unless you're a mailman?)??

Answer the door in a banana hammock. That should throw them off...

[Midtowner]

Answer the door in a banana hammock. That should throw them off...

Excellent choice.

If this was happening to me on a regular basis, I'd study up, let these folks into my home, then proceed to try and convert them to Catholicism. That'd probably get my house blacklisted eventually.

[Dave Cook]

Off topic but.......would an administrator of this website please shoot me an email. I can't find anyplace on this site for an admin contact.

Thanks...

[jbrown84]

I get at least 3 "visits" per week.

That's absolutely bizarre. In 16 or years or so since moving back here, I think we've had Mormon's knock on the front door once, and maybe one other visit from the Jehovah's witnesses. That's it.

Do you have a big Darwin fish in your front window or something?

[bretthexum]

That's absolutely bizarre. In 16 or years or so since moving back here, I think we've had Mormon's knock on the front door once, and maybe one other visit from the Jehovah's witnesses. That's it.

Do you have a big Darwin fish in your front window or something?

I'd say we get one about every other week. We are in a newer neighborhood so maybe that's it.

[kevinpate]

The only Witness I can recall ever striking up a conversation with me in the 20+ years in this area was a chap at work last summer. Seemed a nice fellow, but as he took a new position elsewhere shortly after, we really dinna get into non-work matters very much at all.

Perhaps 3 LDS front porch visits, another two sidewalk visits, just because that's how the timing worked out. Lots of LDS Scouting buds over the years, but I guess in that setting it's more a masonic type gig, and since I wasn't asking, they weren't reaching out to impart their views.

Fuzzy, maybe you're just on a missionary scavenger hunt list - 100 points for engaging fuzzy more than 2 minutes ... 500 if you get invited in

[OKCMallen]

I get at least 3 "visits" per week. I can always count on an 8am doorbell ring pretty much every saturday..

If i *dare* to act annoyed at the fact that I've been woken up early saturday morning, I'm treated with the sort of regard you'd give someone who'd just taken a crap in your dining room..

Every weekday I come home to a front door with "Literature" crammed into the handle of my storm door.

My mailbox is crammed full of flyers and schedules.

So, with all due respect, excuse the EFF out of me for not wanting to have this crap shoved down my throat when I go to an NBA game I've paid to attend.

Dude, easy. Grow a pair and tell the people to NOT come back to your door. Get a no solicitors sign. YOu're made the people bothering you at home; no need to take it out on something unrelated.

[El Gato Pollo Loco!!!]

I'm still wanting some pie.

[fuzzytoad]

Dude, easy. Grow a pair and tell the people to NOT come back to your door. Get a no solicitors sign. YOu're made the people bothering you at home; no need to take it out on something unrelated.

told them to get lost.

got a sign

got another sign defining the word "solicitor" and its relationship to witnessing.


I'm not *just* mad at the people bothering me at home. I'm mad at the way Christians in Oklahoma expect to be treated better than everyone else, given more leeway to do whatever they want, and feel the need to whine like little children anytime anyone dares to question their faith and their incessent need to shove Christianity in our faces 24/7.

[Midtowner]

You're mad at people who just want to express themselves in public?

Gosh you're touchy.

[OKCMallen]

whine like little children anytime anyone dares to question their faith

This is the only part of your post I agree with; the rest seems to be exaggerated a bit.

[El Gato Pollo Loco!!!]

I'm still wanting some pie.

Apple is good...

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Apple is good...

Especially when it's got the nice flaky crust on the bottom and a big heaping pile of vanilla ice cream on top. Maybe a touch of caramel.

[Martin]

i just can't stand it anymore. i've had it up to HERE with you pie-lovers.

it's like four times every weekday, i'll be sitting around enjoying a nice slice of cake and some apple pie-lover comes banging on my door trying to push their loser agenda. if that wasn't bad enough, the coconut cream witnesses cram their leaflets into my storm door no less than twenty-seven times each day of the weekend. i've woken up to marie callendar's coupons under my pillow. ummm.... creepy! don't even get me started on those WHACKOS who are into boston cream. what the HELL is boston cream, anyways? here's a hint, try to get some REASON.

don't get the wrong idea... i don't *just* hate the pie-loving knuckle-draggers who come to my door. it's as if ALL people who are into pie are given the LEEWAY to do whatever THEY want. you can't just go around eating pie WHEREVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT.

you wouldn't believe the sanctimonious stares i get when i tell these pie-proselytizers that maybe i don't care for pie so much and politely flip them the bird. and kick them down the stairs. and chase them down the street. if you enjoy pie, good for you but have the common decency to enjoy it in the privacy of your own home and NOT IN FRONT OF ME. QUIT TRYING TO SHOVE PIE DOWN MY THROAT, PEOPLE!!!!1111ONE!!1 really... i don't walk into pioneer pies and tell YOU to do the reasonable thing and eat cake. jerks.

-M

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Oh horsefeathers! It's a free country and we can prosthelypies any where we want!

[Martin]

damn you and your prosthetic pies!!! get off my lawn! let me eat cake IN PEACE!

-M

[Oh GAWD the Smell!]

Ever heard of Devil's Food Cake? Hmmmmm?

CAKE IS EVIL! It's corrupting our youth!

Cake and video games!

And Texas!