I'm going to rant for a minute here, instead of working on my paper which is due tomorrow.
The Gideons were handing out Bibles in the student centre today (for the record, they changed the cover from the one they gave out in the 4th grade, it's now yellow). I guess it's been a while since a lot of people touched a Bible, let alone thought about God so there seemed to be quite an upheaval of commotion concerning this. I get it. Some people don't believe, some people choose to believe in different things, but it doesn't matter. Sheesh. These people are taking time out of their day to try and help you for what they deem to be the greater good. They don't know you, yet according to their system of beliefs they want to share God and Jesus with you. But what kind of reaction do they get? Goodness. You'd think that they were telling people to empty out their bank accounts for them. If you're not interested in recieving a free Bible then how hard is it to say "no thank you"? If you're not going to happily accept a gift, then don't do it. Comments like "ah! it's burning in my hand" are needless and completely ignorant. On top of that, taking one when you don't want one and then tearing it up and throwing it out is completely unnecessary. I may be a little biased since I grew up in a religious home and have developed my own ideas and opinion of God (we won't get into organized religion though as I have more than a few beefs with it), but how hard is it to excercise manners in a situation like this? It's like when the Jehovah's witnesses come to your door. You just tell them you're not interested and they leave. When was the last time you heard about someone reluctantly inviting them in and then bashing their heads in with a bat? Honestly, that's the equivalent of being snappy and snarky to the Gideons (or any other volunteer pamphlet-hander-outer for that matter). If you don't want one, then fine, say so. Being rude about it afterwards like someone has asked you to commit crimes against humanity is ludacris.
