doodpersoon
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In the first chapter of the Christopher Hitchens book God is not great Hitchens writes that he would have no problem with religion, and leave religions alone if that they in turn leave me alone.
This got me thinking, in what ways does religion influences me and my daily activities.
Then I thought some more. Then I made a pizza and Thought how religion influences other people in other places.
I am curious, how is your daily live effective where you live? And how do you deal with it?
For the the biggest problems are
And there are many more things religion (or it's followers) do around here which annoys me(some store owners give discounts to other Christians)
And in what ways does religion involve your day to day live? And how do you deal with it?
This got me thinking, in what ways does religion influences me and my daily activities.
Then I thought some more. Then I made a pizza and Thought how religion influences other people in other places.
I am curious, how is your daily live effective where you live? And how do you deal with it?
For the the biggest problems are
- There are no stores open on sunday!
I live in the Dutch bible belt with (offcourse) a lot of Christians in the city council. the only store open is a gas station (because hey, we need to drive to church on Sunday). this sucks for 2 reasons. 1 : If I need something I need to drive to a big city or wait a day. 2 : Most of the youth here works in supermarkets. Who would want to earn a extra buck on Sunday. Even the public transit is halved on Sunday!
- they try to take away my music.
Like most people I have a soft spot for (what is for me) good music. One of these styles is metal (in it's broadest form). A yearly returning problem is the heavy metal festival 'Elsrock' outside a small town. the organisers of the event fight every year for a metal festival for the community. But most of the time the city won't give a permit without a court order (the festival is around the same time as a piratefest inside the town which the same noise as Elsrock.)
And this is just one instance. If you walk in the town with lets say an Iron maiden or Black Sabbath shirt some evangelicals will surely try to convert you.
- the bells on sunday morning.
How come the local pub needs 2 thick doors to make sure nobody hears the sounds coming from inside but the church 300 meters from my house gets to wake my up on a Sunday at 8'o clock?
And there are many more things religion (or it's followers) do around here which annoys me(some store owners give discounts to other Christians)
And in what ways does religion involve your day to day live? And how do you deal with it?