So I'm Grabbing Some Cheese At The Grocery Store...

[LibertyLover]

287. So what you are saying is that we have to take whatever crap Christian conservatives

throw at us because if we react the way we'd like, we might bring them down? Nope, not happening anymore. Or as the song says 'we're not gonna take it". I thought the OP's response was amusing. I've done something similar. A few years ago my best friend and I had braved Black Friday to shop for gifts for her kids, who where young at the time and wanted some of the difficult to come by toys. We got back home later than we had wanted and needed to grab something for dinner as well as doing some shopping for another festive dinner the next day when her in-laws were coming to celebrate Thanksgiving. As we were waiting in the line to buy meat, one of her neighbors came up and started with the happy God talk. My friend was tired and not in the mood and told him that it had been a rotten day and wasn't going to get better soon. His response was something along the lines of 'but our God doesn't want you to feel that way'. I stepped in and said that maybe his god didn't but my goddess, Sekhmet, Egyptian goddess of death, disease, plague and destruction doesn't care." Stopped him dead in his tracks. He sort of blinked and walked away. Several people in the meat line applauded. Years after that I still got told by people in town how much they had laughed over the guy's reaction and that he had calmed the happy god talk down to a point that it was bearable.