After the big Halloween thing at church yesterday, my friend Jules and I went to Chipotle for some much needed sustenance. We had a lovely lunch and were discussing how to fix the world when this little skinny guy in a Chipotle shirt came up to us and asked if he could talk to us.
First he asked if we believe in God. I asked which one. Then I told him that I tend to follow a Pagan path and that's where us all went to hell. He told me that Pagan only means that you believe in multiple gods. First off, that is the definition of polytheism, not Paganism and I told him this. Then he told me that the reason I don't believe in his god is because I hadn't had my revelation yet.
It's very hard to explain to someone that won't listen that I have in fact had my revelation, it just wasn't the same as his. Apparently, he "lived a life of sin" (whatever that means) and he found Jesus. I asked him why I am supposed to ask forgiveness for sins that I do not believe in. Because the Bible says so.
He told us that he believes in "The Truth" not science. We were sitting by a window and I asked him if it was real; he said yes. Then I asked him if the bible said it was not real, would he believe it. He said yes. So if the bible says it, it must be completely true. Jules asked him if he could survive being swallowed by a whale; as it turns out, he thinks he could if he prayed.
He told us that we are probably going to hell because I believe a lie and Jules isn't trying to shove shit down my throat so she obviously doesn't care about Jesus either. And heaven is in the sky and from what I gathered from what he was saying, hell is the Earth's core.
The bible is not open to interpretation, everything is word for word, so I asked if I should even be allowed to talk about religion since I'm female. He said yes, because the bible is interpreted differently now.
This lovely boy made the mistake of telling us him name. When we left I told him that maybe while he was on the clock and still in uniform, he shouldn't talk shit on other peoples religious beliefs.
We called his manager and totally ratted him out, hopefully he got fired. This whole thing just made my day because he is so ignorant, that he didn't even notice the 15 times we turned his words back on him.
Screwing with the mundane is just way too much fun.
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this just made my day!! ~ jules
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ReplyDeletethe last week i almost made an old lady drop dead because she walked up to me to vote for someone right outside the supermarket and when i said she i wasn't a republican she asked if my HUSBAND was
then i told her husband? no
noticing i was pushing a stroller with a toddler she made a comment about being Catholic (which i am) and not married. i the replied i have another one at home too
i then went inside and told the store manager that some nut was outside and thank god she was removed.... if she wasn't god knows what i would have said to her while leaving
I hope you realize how much fun I could have had with that poor soul. I do that quite frequently around here. I usually get told I'm going to hell, that's when I point out that I'm a religion major and definitely plan on going to seminary and that most people in theological schools of thought think in a very open manner. It's the ignorant ones that give the rest of us a bad name. I love you, thanks for sharing this adventure with us. ;)
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