When someone says I'm a very religious person...

[lleeder]

does that make you feel better or worse about them? The other day a person I felt like I knew said " I'm a very religious person". Immediately I felt like I didn't really know what he was all about. In fact I felt like I couldn't be friends with him anymore.

[FezPaul]

If they're muslim and they've got explosives strapped to their chest it makes me feel worse.

[Clement Clemens]

Better!
What's wrong with the Big Cheese in the sky?

[nevnut]

If they're muslim and they've got explosives strapped to their chest it makes me feel worse.

Ditto

[Sue_Bender]

Worse.

Much, much worse.

And scared.

[booster11373]

does that make you feel better or worse about them? The other day a person I felt like I knew said " I'm a very religious person". Immediately I felt like I didn't really know what he was all about. In fact I felt like I couldn't be friends with him anymore.

Ive had 2 similar incidents recently but it was about specific religious beliefs stemming from religion, both were against evolution.......I just stopped talking and walked away

[~Katja~]

worse, much worse.

If a person believes in God, fine... they usually don't force their opinions and beliefs on others. When a person says they are VERY religious it just makes me feel like they are ignorant and dumber, as generally (not all but most) have complete disregard for science and base everything on the bible.

Oh well, that probably makes me just as ignorant... may I burn in hell for it ;)

[Snoogans]

I generally think worse, because usually that means it's going to be followed with some explaination of why thats good and why I am not a good person for what I choose to believe.

[DolaMight]

jesus christ You're So Sacreligious You godDamned Heathen.

[LaBoob]

I feel worse but only a little. No offense to the religious, but I don't get it... and I was raised in a very religious family.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I want to say it doesn't bother me but that's bullshit. I cite the same reason that Snoogans just gave. It fucking irritates me when people act like they know shit and want to enlighten you to your own blasphemy. I also find them irritatingly simplistic and overly reliant on irrationality while remaining very uncompromising on most issues - a quality in people that assures a continued existence of repressive, demagougic behavior.

All that said, I love Catholic girls. There's something incredibly sexy about them.

[Bob Impact]

Worse, but i actually voted Pray in my Butt cause it made me giggle.

[IamPixie]

worse. It's almost as bad as someone saying someone that they're "a good person"

[Don Stugots]

worse because I know that I will have to heard over and over again how I am going to hell unless I repent. Blah blah blah.

[TheMojoPin]

I've yet to meet a person who inexplicably says "lleeder is a very religious person," so I will not vote in this oddly titled poll.

[Jughead]

Don't tell me tell your God......

[Kevin]

Usually, the more religious the person is, the more fucked up their past is. Just leave the fuck alone already, why do i have to suffer because you did some seriously fucked up shit and want to make up for it.

[Coach]

I usually don't mind..unless they say it alot..then it bugs me..Anyone who feels compelled to say it alot, has some guilt issues about something.
Religious cultures like Orthodox Jews are fine by me unless I have to eat Kosher because I am travelling on a flight with them.
And those uber religious "born agains" have some pretty fucked up pasts usually, the others are just desperate for attention, acceptance, and something to belong to, imo.

[Devo37]

when i was in college, one of the guys from the dorm had a female friend from his home town come to visit him for the weekend. we all went to the local bar, and me and her were kinda getting along well. we went to a separate booth from the rest of the group and started talking. this chick was sounding pretty wild. she was talking about f#cking her ex in her parents bed while they were home, giving bl@wjobs to random guys, and all this sh!t. i was feeling pretty good about how the night would turn out for me.

and then she said, "But then I turned my life over to Jesus."

needless to say, the conversation ended soon-after...

[Thebazile78]

does that make you feel better or worse about them? The other day a person I felt like I knew said " I'm a very religious person". Immediately I felt like I didn't really know what he was all about. In fact I felt like I couldn't be friends with him anymore.

It makes me feel like they're the rich man in the temple.

Then I feel sorry for them.

[sailor]

guess i'm the only one who voted better on this heathen board.

[ibanez23]

when i was in college, one of the guys from the dorm had a female friend from his home town come to visit him for the weekend. we all went to the local bar, and me and her were kinda getting along well. we went to a separate booth from the rest of the group and started talking. this chick was sounding pretty wild. she was talking about f#cking her ex in her parents bed while they were home, giving bl@wjobs to random guys, and all this sh!t. i was feeling pretty good about how the night would turn out for me.

and then she said, "But then I turned my life over to Jesus."

needless to say, the conversation ended soon-after...
Ouch! Jesus is such a buzzkill.

[lleeder]

guess i'm the only one who voted better on this heathen board.

Next board event all religious people stand in one corner and eat BLT's with mustard.

[Kevin]

when i was in college, one of the guys from the dorm had a female friend from his home town come to visit him for the weekend. we all went to the local bar, and me and her were kinda getting along well. we went to a separate booth from the rest of the group and started talking. this chick was sounding pretty wild. she was talking about f#cking her ex in her parents bed while they were home, giving bl@wjobs to random guys, and all this sh!t. i was feeling pretty good about how the night would turn out for me.

and then she said, "But then I turned my life over to Jesus."

needless to say, the conversation ended soon-after...

Ouch..

[sailor]

Next board event all religious people stand in one corner.

never pretended i was or that they'd be fun to hang out with. like i'd say my grandmother's very religious and she's a lot better person than me.

[lleeder]

My grandmother is religious too. I think its fair to say 95% of old people are. Religion was alot more popular before TV came around and beat its ass.

[Thebazile78]

never pretended i was or that they'd be fun to hang out with. like i'd say my grandmother's very religious and she's a lot better person than me.

My grandmother is also very religious, but she doesn't go around saying she is.

She just lives her life the way she believes Jesus would want her to.

(The woman raised 7 kids, including one who is developmentally disabled, on a blue-collar salary. Although she's disappointed that I no longer consider myself Catholic, she's stopped trying to preach to me; instead, she prays for me. I figure I've got a free pass to Heaven now and can do whatever I want.)

It's been my experience that the people who go around declaring how religious they are are usually the ones whose lurid pasts are exposed on the next Drudge report. Or they're complete jerks ... like Mrs. Kearns. (Sheepy knows who I mean.)

If you have to say you're religious, you probably aren't really.

[sailor]

If you have to say you're religious, you probably aren't really.

i think that's silly. and i don't think the initial question was them going around saying it, but they happened to say it once in conversation. using your logic you'd never say anything aboot yourself.

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I think Bazile means that those who preach to be religious are usually the most hypocritical of the lot. My experience has proven that this is often the case. I met a girl once who was preaching all about Christ and how she wanted to be a nun so she could save herself for God and all that. She proceeded to do a dance on the table at a bar and flashed her tits. Hooray! Fast forward a month or two and her head is bobbing up and down while I'm a smiling guy driving down a Californian freeway. It don't make ya a bad person.

There's a Bhuddist saying that goes to the tune of "if you say you understand, you no longer understand" -that's the gist of it. Relevant statement.

As for the elderly religious thing, my grandfather is 96 and a full blown atheist (fba?).

[sailor]

and there are plenty of people like that who don't say they're very religious. i think it's a stretch to say the two are related.


come to think of it, i don't think i've ever met anyone who said they were very religious. where do you people hang out?

[jonyrotn]

My oppinion of the person generally lessens, unless they are scientoligests then I ask for their autograph..


It's funny, because I always thank god for my food and I say a prayer every night/day for people I know need it..
But, If someone says, "I'm a very religious person" I tend to translate that in my head as, "I'm a huge asshole and don't be yourself around me"..
God only knows why! :huh:

[Thebazile78]

I think Bazile means that those who preach to be religious are usually the most hypocritical of the lot.

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There's a Bhuddist saying that goes to the tune of "if you say you understand, you no longer understand" -that's the gist of it. Relevant statement.
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Exactly what I meant. The people who feel the most compelled to wear their (alleged) faith on their sleeves are the ones who tend not to live the Word they preach. ("If I speak all the tongues of the world, but have not Love, my words are nothing more than a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" 1 Corinthians 13:1)

Incidentally, there's a passage in the Epistles of St. Paul that deals with the same concept as that Buddhist saying.

and there are plenty of people like that who don't say they're very religious. i think it's a stretch to say the two are related.


come to think of it, i don't think i've ever met anyone who said they were very religious. where do you people hang out?

There are plenty of hypocrites out there, I agree.

It's been my experience, having volunteered at my parish growing up, that the ones who are loudest about "practicing [their] religion" are the people with the least faith. (And there is a difference between being a "person of faith" and being a "religious person" in my usage. I am not particularly "religious," but I try very hard to be a "person of faith" in my words and actions. Needless to say, I am not always successful.)

[walking joint]

maybe i'm not looking to make friends, but it just rolls off me like most things do. if someone told me they are 'very religous' i'd hear it and that would probably be the last i would think of it unless they continued to preach to me. if they did the conversation would probably bore me to the point that I'd look for a way out of it. but that goes for just about anything. if i'm not interested i really don't listen and i look for a way out, but it doesn't bother me much. i go to church each week and say prayers just about daily, but outside of my family who I see at church most don't know I do as I really don't talk about it.

[RoseBlood]

(And there is a difference between being a "person of faith" and being a "religious person" in my usage. I am not particularly "religious," but I try very hard to be a "person of faith" in my words and actions. Needless to say, I am not always successful.)

These are my feelings as well. I was raised Christian (Catholic). At present, I am not a religious person, although I have a positive belief in faith. I do respect all religions and spirituality while still questioning the aspects of certain religions (might I say most?) that are likely to ring untrue to most when put in black and white terms. I believe that some abstract belief system is inherent of being human, and I also believe that people align with one that has already been constructed rather than discovering their own. There is great value to searching your own spirit to find answers about yourself and your world while keeping religious tradition or beliefs aside.

and btw.. I voted a marginal "worse".

[Slumbag]

Whenever I hear, "I'm a very religous person", it's usually followed by, "My car's broke down and I need some money to get back home". Whenever people beg me for money, they ALWAYS bring up that they're a Christian, or that they go to church.




My oppinion of the person generally lessens

I agree with this one. I was raised with religion. My dad never really bought it, he was always just kind of like "Look, your mother wants you to go, so just go and listen". My mom was really into it though. I just don't buy it. It makes people look kinda foolish, but if it's your thing, knock yourself out.

[ahhdurr]

I agree with 'ol rotn.

Not necessarily that I'd think that's saying "I'm an asshole" but that they're tyring to let you know where they stand. Safe to say, though, you'd run into your share of assholes that let you know they stand there.