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

[christx30]

361. To me it's like

Someone saying "Have a nice day" and the responce to them being "Fu*k off and DIE!!!" or "Don't tell me what to do."
There is absolutely no reason for it. I don't have any religious beliefs. I get along well with Christians and Jews and Muslims and any others. Jehovah's Witnesses some times irritate me, like when I'm at a playground with my kids on my one weekend a month being able to see them. But I do not get nasty wtih anyone. I'm pleasent, and I say "No thanks" and it's done. Yes they are proselytizing. That's part of their faith. They believe in bringing others into the fold. And it can be irritating, but it's not anything bad directed at you.
But the thing with the OP was totally uncalled for, and is actually pretty damning to the cause. How I think they would see it, they offered a word of kindness to a stranger, and that stranger responded with hatred. They will remember this person. They will pray for this person, and speak about them at church and to their friends.
Do you really want that to be the impression you leave with people?
The great thing about this country is that you can say anything you want. You don't have to be an atomaton. But the reverse is that you have to tolerate hundreds of other political and religious differences. Not everyone is going to like Obama. Not everyone is going to be athiest, Wiccan, or agnostic. That doesn't make them stupid. It doesn't mean that they want to kill you for being liberal or gay. Some of them might be actually the "Love thy neighbor" Christian. But if you shun and denigrate every person that throws blessings around, it will poison their view, and make the world a little worse place to live.