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This is coming from the king of the rude comments. I chose to put my unease on here where I know none of these people I'm talking about will be affected. I'm not some uncaring asshole that wouldn't made a spectacle of the proceedings or been a jerk like that fine Christian Shirley Chisolm who attends military funerals and tells the mourners their loved one deserved to die because he wasn't up to true Christian standards.

Don't be an ass just because your Christian sensibilities are a bit ruffled. You still are the vast majority in this nation so it's not like you need to feel at all threatened by us "uppity" pagans.

It's not like we non-believers have a lot of choice in where we attend such functions such as weddings and funerals and I'll be damned if I'll become a hermit because of unease like this. I was at this function to share grief and lend support to friends which is what I did. That I got to experience Christian cluelessness had nothing to do with that. My rail is against rude and boorish behavior which seems rife within your faith.

As I said (and let me repeat it for you again), what Christians do and talk about amongst themselves during NORMAL church services where the location is preferred by all members, is just fine and dandy and I'll avoid it like the plague. But, when you have a PUBLIC function where people of other faiths and beliefs are expected to attend, it wouldn't fucking hurt a bit if you'd tone down and make the things just a bit more generic and leave the recruiting pep talks for more intimate times.

I've attended a few weddings where they actually served communion during the ceremonies and nearly all but a handful of people rise up and go to the front to become cannibals and then give the rest who didn't participate the evil eye as they return. I'm sure the people being wed are simply clueless as to the fact that it might just make people uncomfortable to feel in such a minority but you'd hope the minister or priest would understand that dynamic and possibly point it out. Let's face it, there's nothing within their faith that says mass communion is required during a wedding. I know enough about Christian tradition to know it's an extra option. My guess is the priest pushes it to the bride and groom in most cases knowing how peer pressure can push people into the cult.

Don't ever believe your whiny indignation means anything to me Tom and your comment about drowning in bitterness is a laugh. I'm not the one that is scared of and hates half the world because they were on the other side of the Crusades.

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