Anti Christian bias in America

Tod tod@fermi
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 15:35:42 -0600 (CST) (00884835342, Pine.SGI.3.91.980114152750.14916B-100000@fermi) 

I once worked for "Health Advantage" a couple of years ago, an insurance 
company run by very, very conservative people.  One day I saw "Life in 
our Anti Christian America" on the internet, and loved it, so I printed 
it out.  Something came up that drew my attention however, and I forgot 
about it.  That is, until the one man in the office who wasn't a 
fundamentalist comes walking through the office, laughing like a loon, 
reading something in his hand.  Somebody asked what he was reading, and 
he quoted a few of them.  Needless to say, the rest of the office wasn't 
amused, and my manager was livid, demanding that the culprit that printed 
it out come forward and confess.  Of course, I kept my mouth shut, even 
though a few people instantly suspected me (wonder why?).  It shook up 
the office for the day, that is for sure, and they took turns passing it 
around, making faces of disgust as they read it.  

This is the same company that fired me a week before they were to hire me 
permanently (I was working through a temp service) because it was claimed 
that I "harrassed others about their religion."  In actuality, I had been 
reading Dennis McKinsey's "Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy" on my break, 
minding my own business, when somebody came up and saw the title, and in 
disgust informed me that there were no errors in the Bible, at which time 
I whipped out my pocket Bible and provided examples.  The whole breakroom 
was livid, and it was me verses 12.  Of course, they offered no logical 
argument, only condemnation of my soul.  So apparently, the fact that I 
had a better argument then theirs constitutes "harrassment," even though 
I was the one who was first attacked.  Since I had the job through a temp 
service, they could terminate me for any reason, and therefore religious 
descrimination couldn't be claimed.  I tried anyway, but my local ACLU is 
quite poor and lacking in volunteer lawyers, and they said that they felt 
for me, but couldn't take the case.

I just took that one in the ass.

Later,

Tod Billings