Uber Christian

Repost from Facebook and Livejournal but worth it:

One of my customers was complaining today about her supervisor getting upset because she was wearing a pentacle. (Keep in mind my office doesn't have any religious items in it all and the only clue she'd have had was the rather inobvious cross around my neck as to my faith. Oh yeah, and I talk about that sort of thing frequently.) She noticed my little broom I keep on my desk around Halloween that says "The Witch is In" (The other said says the Witch is Out) and commented that she'd like to find one, and that's what brought it up. I told her I bought it several years ago at Wal- Mart and after only a few days decided it had to come to work with me. She tells me her supervisor at work is "uber christian" and had told her that she couldn't wear her pentacle at work because it was create a hostile work environment. Now, she isn't taking it lying down, she told the woman that if she had to take hers off, all the little crosses need to come off their necks too. I told her she could probably have a little fun with a fake voodoo doll sitting on her desk and just not saying anything about it...

It has occurred to me since then and I want to know: How does her being an insecure bully make her an uber Christian? On what planet is being so insecure that everyone around you has to conform or pretend to conform to your beliefs or else considered a Christian value? A Christ-like quality? Did I miss the part in the gospels where Yeshua bitch slapped the Pharisees and kicked Samaritan bitch in the jaw for being mouthy? What about the part where he laughed at the people who didn't think like he does and told them they couldn't talk about it in front of him? Or when he boycotted the market because they didn't tell him Happy Hanukkah?

It's pretty sad that people who act like they have a stick up their behind have become the public face of my religion to people who don't practice it. Pretty sad indeed.