Atheists: It's really irritating when someone who knows you're atheist invites you to come to church with them, amirite?

+83 Atheists: It's really irritating when someone who knows you're atheist invites you to come to church with them, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

*Forces you to go to church with them. Stupid parents.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, and when they blame all your troubles on the fact that you "don't have god in your life". Grr.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes! Exactly!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My mom said she was forcing me to go to church, and I told her I would burn down the cross.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wow @meetmadie are we the same person?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't think it's bad if they invite you as long as they respect you declining.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's what I'm saying. I'm flattered if they want to spend time with me and if they're okay with me saying "no thanks," that's fantastic.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If the purpose was to try to convert you to their religion, that //might// be annoying, but as an invitation to spend time with them, not at all.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, the girl that invited me has been trying to convert me forever. It makes me angry that she can't respect my beliefs like I respect hers.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

My religious friends invite me to youth group occasionally, and I don't mind.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's also annoying when my Atheist friends invite me to hang out with them on Sundays and get upset when I can't go because I have to go to church. Every argument goes both ways.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, that's dumb that they get upset.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't really see why it's a big deal. I've brought atheist friends to church, and I've gone to a mosque with a Muslim friend. Whats the problem in seeing a little bit of what is essentially culture? That is assuming they aren't trying to convert you or something.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A few years ago a "friend" took me to her Pentecostal church and they did this Altar Call thing. Basically you stand at the altar and the reverend yells in your face and tells Jesus to fill your body with His power, and if you're truly filled with Jesus' love then you pass out. Scariest thing I've ever seen. After that the reverend said some homophobic stuff. //Great// experience. That "friend" no longer goes to church because she's bisexual, apparently.

by Anonymous 11 years ago