You know how you can tell when someone is a christian?

[cleanhippie]

[BlueJazz]

1. Bless you...I'll pray for you. Have you found Jesus? (Is he lost again?)

[Curmudgeoness]

2. When I saw your subject line,

that was the first thing that I thought. They will tell you constantly, even if they phrase it in ways like "I will pray for you".

Thanks for the laugh.

[trotsky]

3. And then they'll tell you how everyone else ISN'T one. n/t

[uriel1972]

4. I have a charismatic christian friend

who will tell you the bad christians aren't really christian. I want so badly to bring up the 'Scotsman' thing with her, but don't want to lose her as a friend.

[AlbertCat]

6. but don't want to lose her as a friend.

If her friendship is dependent on that, she doesn't seem like a very good Friend.

[uriel1972]

8. It's complex

Normally I'd let it drift off, but she's part of a group of friends and alienating her would impact negatively on my relationship with the rest. /sigh OTOH if this is the worst thing in my life, my life is pretty darn good.

[Rob H.]

5. That's especially true here in the southeastern USA

Ironically, some of the ones who crow loudest about how they go to church twice a week have been some of the most fundamentally (no pun intended) dishonest people I've ever met. A lot of them seem to support Romney, too, and his "Fuck everyone else, I got mine" ideology. Jesus would be so proud.

[AlbertCat]

7. especially true here in the southeastern USA

I don't think so.

I was "hit up" many more times in CA than in NC. And OK and KS seem pretty loud about it.

[Rob H.]

9. Maybe it's because I'm in Memphis, closer to the heart of the Bible Belt?

I'm surrounded by religious types here--there are six churches within a two-mile radius of my apartment, and five of the six are less than 1/2 a mile away. (The megachurch is the one that's furthest away, thank goodness.) There are also a bunch of people where I work who have cubes and offices plastered with religious art and bible verses. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else I've ever worked, even in Idaho, which has a significant LDS population.

[Arugula Latte]

10. There are certain words that they use. "Blessing" is the main one.

When I hear that it's like a little silent alarm goes off for me ... Proceed with caution ...

[BillStein]

11. My secretary kept telling me to

have a blessed day. I hate that- she knows I'm a non-believing secular Jew....

[AlGoreRhythms]

12. I hate that passive-aggressive approach.

I get it constantly at work.