Avenging_Mikon posted:

Not he offered, but that was the bet.

I kinda wish this one had happened, tho

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(In a class in college we are expected to get into groups for a weeks-long project. There’s a student sitting next to me who has made me uncomfortable in the past, but has latched onto me. He insists we be in a group together. Since I know no one else in the class, I go with it. In the course of working on the project, he learns that I’m a Christian.)

Me: “I can look at that after small group tonight.”

Classmate: “Small group?”

Me: “Oh, just a group of us from my church that meets on Tuesdays every week for Bible discussion and praying; that’s all. We’ll be done around nine.”

Classmate: “Do you guys get together sometimes to rape kids? All while singing songs to your Santa Claus in the sky?”

Me: “Okay, not only am I not Catholic, which I assume is the source of your jab, that’s disgusting and wrong to joke about.”

Classmate: “You all think you’re drinking some made-up Jew’s blood, anyway, so it’s all the same.”

Me: “Again, you are confusing Catholic beliefs with—”

Classmate: “Oh, are you mad?”

Me: “I’m not mad; I’d just expect you to know what you’re talking about before you try to insult my religious beliefs.”

Classmate: “Crap, you’re not going to go invade some country and kill all the indigenous people over this, are you? I know how you guys like to do that.”

(Over the course of the project, and then the rest of the semester, he latches onto me socially, acting like we’ve been the best of friends forever, but doesn’t seem to get how friends are supposed to interact, even if they have very different views on things. I keep my distance as best I can, with varying degrees of success, through graduation, and hear nothing from him for a couple years afterward. I’ve all but forgotten about him until I get a friend request on Facebook. Naturally, I decline the request. Then I get a direct message from him a few days later.)

Classmate: “Hey, why am I deleted?”

Comptroll The Forums posted:

Actually I can 100% believe that one. It's hardly even embellished. A true STDH about christian intolerance would require the non-believer to break down in a hysterical screaming fit while the christian calmly quotes scripture.

I do appreciate though that the author sidesteps all the with "no that's actually the catholics."

oldpainless posted:

That classmate sounds like a real jerk!

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Plenty of non Catholic Christians drink altar wine, too.

Volcott posted:

I remember why. It's the popegators.



I do hate the Italians, though.

Comptroll The Forums posted:

I do appreciate though that the author sidesteps all the with "no that's actually the catholics."

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

A lot of the evil decadent Catholic church practices are shared by other denominations. It's just that historically Catholics have been associated with people who are poor, brown, or Not White Enough/only recently given a white pass (Poles, Italians, Spanish, Greek, Irish etc). So everyone remembers to pick on the Catholics in particular but they don't always remember why.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Plenty of non Catholic Christians drink altar wine, too.

Volcott posted:

I remember why. It's the popegators.



I do hate the Italians, though.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

historically Catholics have been Greek

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

A lot of the evil decadent Catholic church practices are shared by other denominations. It's just that historically Catholics have been associated with people who are poor, brown, or Not White Enough/only recently given a white pass (Poles, Italians, Spanish, Greek, Irish etc). So everyone remembers to pick on the Catholics in particular but they don't always remember why.

Sir Lemming posted:

It took me a long time to realize that Mr. Potter was being racist when he referred to "garlic eaters" in It's A Wonderful Life

Volcott posted:

I remember why. It's the popegators.



I do hate the Italians, though.

chitoryu12 posted:

Would you skip the chance for free wine every time you go to church just because you're not Catholic?

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“All Muslims are rapists. They force their wives into sex and treat them very unfairly.”

I'm the only Muslim in my class. This teacher would explain his lessons to us and give us life lessons as well. He was my favorite teacher and I always passed his subject with ease.

So one day our PE teacher comes into our class and asks us if there are any girls who would like to take a self-defence class. I asked about boys and I was told that registration would be given later (probably so that if a boy kicks a girl or something it won't be called sexism and that poo poo)

Anyhow, after some girls signed up, the teacher brought up the topic of kidnapping. It eventually reached rape. And that's where he said that line:

“Most rapings happen in Islamic countries. All Muslims are rapists you see. They force their wives into sex and treat them very unfairly. As if they were objects.”

*Somebody makes a joke about Pakistan and Iran*

Me: No sir. You see, as you might already know, I'm a Muslim. And there isn't a word in the Quran which allows us to treat women unfairly. As a matter of fact, women must be treated kindly.

Teacher: Don't you watch the news? There's always rape by Muslims. Look at ISIS, they rape women.

Me: ISIS is only a maximum of a few million people who support their ideology. There always remember more than a billion Muslims, a few million doesn't represent more than a billion.

Teacher: Listen, I'm older than you, I have more experience than you. You were my favorite student, but now I realized how brainwashed you are (he actually said that.)

Me: Shame. You were my favorite teacher. But I realized how narrow minded you are. I doubt that anyone will know about a culture or religion more than somebody who practices it, comes from it. I'll never know about the Indian culture more than Indians themselves, or know about Christianity more than Christians themselves. Such a shame.

I got a weeks detention. But I got my revenge. I told my parents who notified the school board. The teacher was fired immediately

It surprises me how people can talk like that. Especially him. Especially since he never even read a religion textbook other than the Bible

Note: One of my parents is a Christian, the other a Muslim. When 14, I was introduced to both religious texts. I chose to be a Muslim.

The teacher was a Christian. I posted this whole note because on a previous site, I was accused of hate speech. I don't want the same to happen here.

quote:

Teacher: Listen, I'm older than you, I have more experience than you. You were my favorite student, but now I realized how brainwashed you are (he actually said that.)

quote:

This was from my high school chemistry teacher. She was teaching us about the law of conservation of mass.

As it so happened, I had been reading up on nuclear energy, so I asked her

“But Ma'am, what about nuclear reactions?”

“Oh! Experimental error,” she replied, “The mass gets changed by only 1 or 2%”

I was struck dumb by the sheer callousness of this statement. Even now, nearly ten years later, it makes me mad just thinking about it.

What a golden opportunity I had handed to her on a platter! If she had cared even slightly about the wonder and the beauty of science, she could have brought up Einstein’s equation and explained to us that mass and energy are related. That this great discovery opened the doors to a much deeper understanding of the cosmos.

But no! Experimental error, she says, displaying a complete ignorance of what an ‘error’ is or how to teach science.

GAAHHGH!

*deep breathing*

Phew. Finally got that off my chest.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

A lot of the evil decadent Catholic church practices are shared by other denominations. It's just that historically Catholics have been associated with people who are poor, brown, or Not White Enough/only recently given a white pass (Poles, Italians, Spanish, Greek, Irish etc). So everyone remembers to pick on the Catholics in particular but they don't always remember why.

Wastrel_ posted:

I think I found one where the author claims to actually be Albert Einstein.

MrUnderbridge posted:

Usually when you're teaching beginning level stuff, you give the broadest version. Only later do you start getting into the exceptions and why they happen.

Trebek posted:

Fathis Munk posted:

Just ripped that baby right out

RIP AND BEAr children.

Trebek posted:

Ravenfood posted:

Cool. Its not like delayed cord clamping has significant benefits for the baby or anything (and also doesn't have anything to do with the actual time of delivery), I'm sure that obstetrician was an idiot with zero training or experience delivering babies. But you do you, savage daughter person.