Religious Harassment
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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This is only early April but three times already this year people have tried to save my soul. I’m writing this in hopes that I can have my life back the other eight months.
This month a guy at the next table at the Golden Corral butted into my good time with friends, trying to save my soul. The guy didn’t even have the decency to wait until I finished my meal.
I have a friend who I see five days a week who told me, “Be at home Monday at 3 p.m. for a surprise.” I found out she was going to send a preacher to my place to save my soul and that preacher found nobody home.
Another day the sect known for knocking on doors tried to “save my soul.”
If these church goers want to help me, help me think of a snappy answer that will shut these people up. My nearest denomination is an 80-mile round trip. If you want to give me the $4 a gallon for gas money, I’ll go to church every week but you’ll have to do the driving because I’m old as the hills.
My quarrel is with these people and not God. As he was dying, Henry David Thoreau was asked by his aunt if he had made peace with God. He responded that, “I didn’t know we had ever quarreled.”
There is enough harassing nowadays without church people doing it, too.
James Veatch
North Manchester[[In-content Ad]]
This is only early April but three times already this year people have tried to save my soul. I’m writing this in hopes that I can have my life back the other eight months.
This month a guy at the next table at the Golden Corral butted into my good time with friends, trying to save my soul. The guy didn’t even have the decency to wait until I finished my meal.
I have a friend who I see five days a week who told me, “Be at home Monday at 3 p.m. for a surprise.” I found out she was going to send a preacher to my place to save my soul and that preacher found nobody home.
Another day the sect known for knocking on doors tried to “save my soul.”
If these church goers want to help me, help me think of a snappy answer that will shut these people up. My nearest denomination is an 80-mile round trip. If you want to give me the $4 a gallon for gas money, I’ll go to church every week but you’ll have to do the driving because I’m old as the hills.
My quarrel is with these people and not God. As he was dying, Henry David Thoreau was asked by his aunt if he had made peace with God. He responded that, “I didn’t know we had ever quarreled.”
There is enough harassing nowadays without church people doing it, too.
James Veatch
North Manchester[[In-content Ad]]
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