01-14-2018, 04:08 PM
(01-14-2018, 01:17 AM)irukandji Wrote:Not all these examples are workplace--when working at SSA, people would go to a coworker for help, and she would tell them "first let's pray". My 8 year old son was invited to spend the weekend at another church's mountain camp, I was assured they would not try to convert him. He got there and they tried to pressure him to convert, he started acting like he was putting a voo doo curse on them, they got all scared and avoided him like the plague. Really proud of him. I went to the school superintendent to settle an issue, was asked which church we went to-I said we hadn't gotten one yet, that sounded okay. RC's in that town had to be careful.(01-13-2018, 01:44 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Most "religious conversations" I have witnessed came about because someone tried to proselytize to someone else, or to promote some sort of faith-based rule or law. And the people pushing back were actually of different faiths, not avowed atheists or agnostics.
None of these ever happened in any of my workplaces. I do think that most people know better than to proselytize at work.
The reason I brought up the workplace is because most people congregate in the workplace for a good portion of their day. No one's getting up on a table in the lunchroom and preaching to everyone. That would be disturbing the peace. However, some people do become lifelong friends as the result of working together. If one takes their friendship to the next level by trying to recruit the other to their faith, it's not prohibited at work.
But even being out in public, I've never encountered anyone trying to recruit others to their faith or to atheism. I was curious where cdn encounters these people.