Originally posted by RJHinds
You have freedom from religion. I just want freedom of religion.
The Instructor
I don't have freedom FROM religion when I have to put up with the likes of you for my entire life. I was extremely grateful I got out of the religion business when I was 8 and have been very happy with that decision ever since.
I intensely dislike proselytizing and missionaries. I was embarrassed for my country when I worked in Thailand for 3 years, coming across a family of Mormon missionaries walking single file through Nakomphenom, the town I lived in, where they were so OBVIOUS in their clear moral self superiority, walking single file like they were avoiding stepping on bugs, disdaining everything and everybody in sight.
Then a few months later, that same family went to Bangkok and visited the Emerald Buddha and didn't know the butt was considered the lowest part of the human body while the head was the top, supreme part. So what do they do, when no guards were looking, climb up on top of the frigging EMERALD BUDDHA and waving their arms like they were on a bull, took pictures, then one son gets down, another one gets on and does the same thing.
They were so stupid and insensitive to the Thai culture, they took the film to a local developer and he just happened to be Buddhist and was incensed by what he saw. He called the police and when those idiots came back, they were promptly arrested, thrown in jail for 6 months THEN deported.
Like I said, I was ashamed to be American that day.
All because of this built in self superiority of American religions.