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Originally Posted by Ripperjack
Wow, I'm stunned to hear that. I mean it's not your fault that you're surrounded by religious zealots, with a happy trigger finger. Also I am surprised at how these people even know of your in a church or not. If you're out in the field, how are they going to know your religious status?
Maybe you need to start wearing Christian camouflage. A few crosses or "Jesus" bumper stickers on your company vehicle might help.  |
In a town with only 238 people, everyone knows everyone else, their kids, their dogs, and their dogs puppies, all going back for several generations. And yes, they all know who goes to which church and who doesn't go at all!
There are only 3,000 people in the entire county; most are related because they all interbreed and have been doing so since the 1860's.
Outsiders are viewed with suspicion, people who aren't christian are viewed with suspicion, people who aren't white are viewed with suspicion, government employees are viewed with suspicion. I am a non-white, non-christian, outsider, who works for the fed's, so I get shot at more than the white, christian's who work for the fed's for the simple fact that the local pastors frown on you shooting at people from your own church. Shooting at people who attend a different church is fine though, so my collegues get shot at occasionally as well, just not as much as I do.
Every time someone pulls a gun that means paperwork for the boss. Any time he schedules me for field work, the next day he gets to spend quality time with form 11-360DAD the following day.