Comments on: Teacher was allegedly a proselytising busybody who wouldn’t learn to shut up

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:27:23 +0000

“Scratch the surface of a christian and there is always a deceitful and delusional idiot underneath.” — Angela K

Did you make this up, or did someone famous say it? I think it’s great, and I’m gonna make a note of it!

By: Lucky Jean

Lucky Jean — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:01:12 +0000

Can you imagine what it would be like if you had a sick relative, and one of every kind of religious nut came into your home to try to convince you of their faith and pray with you?
Aarrgh.
Reminds me of when I had a boyfriend with cancer and every damn New Ager would tell him how his cancer would be healed if he had the “right attitude”. I just wanted to smack them all upside the head.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:55:59 +0000

Nothing worse than smiling-eyed dupes who insist on sharing their delusions with the sane. Crucify the bitch!

By: Joe Fogey

Joe Fogey — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:12:47 +0000

It seems to me that the Christian Legal Centre have a strategy in terms of the people they select to set up as martyrs. There seems to be a spate of these fanatics in the west country – Olive Jones is a friend of and lives in the same town as Caroline Petrie, and Jennie Cain also lives in the South West. Their other main field of activity seems to be around black churches.

The Jennie Cain story seems to have gone quiet – the CLC are supporting in her at an employment tribunal, and are presumably going for constructive dismissal since there hasn’t been any indication that she has been sacked http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/.....ticle.html. (Constructive dismissal is where the employer’s behaviour is so serious that the employee has no option but to resign).

The CLC haven’t been particularly successful at industrial tribunals, but of course these are time-consuming and costly for local authorities. It seems they are encouraging this sort of behaviour in order to make employers frightened of taking action against people who behave unprofessionally by proselytising to their patients and pupils.

By: barriejohn

barriejohn — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:59:01 +0000

There’s a whole-page spread in the Mail today by none other than Jonathan Aitken, lauding the need for “spirituality” at this time of year! Some of these people have no shame!!

By: Cleggman

Cleggman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:21:11 +0000

@Angela K. It’s not only the eyes but also the quasi mono-brow and the terrible hair. Oh, and the smug, self-satisfied look of one who is ‘saved’. We had a few of these idiots at the last place I worked. They were all teachers too.

By: Callisto

Callisto — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:43:13 +0000

I feel I am being persecuted for speaking about my faith in a country that is supposed to be Christian. I feel if I had spoken about almost any other topic I would have been fine but Christianity is seen as a no-go area. It felt as if I was being treated as a criminal. It is like a bad dream that had come true.

It’s all about her isn’t it? No one else, just her. Just HER faith, and HER rights, and HER ‘spiritual convictions’. It doesn’t matter about the family or the girl, oh, no, no, no, this is all about Jones and HER persecution.

The utter and complete selfishness of religious people never ceases to astound me. Not a stick of compassion for the people she distressed, just as long as SHE has her rights to speak about HER faith and to firmly shove it down everyone’s throat is held above and beyond anyone else’s rights, then that’s just tickety-boo. Just as long as christians get their own way in EVERYTHING, as long as THEIR needs trump everyone else’s, then that’s fine. Well, it ain’t fine with me. If this had happened to me, I’d make sure she got a taste of my atheism right back down her selfish whiny xian yap.

By: Uzza

Uzza — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:39:36 +0000

I too, am “keenly aware of the importance of an individualâ€™s spiritual belief” as well as an individual’s anal sex beliefs, said importance to me being zero, so I don’t want to hear about either one.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:15:30 +0000

Imagine if the family had been Christians and the teacher were an atheist or Satanist. Would the Christians be screaming that the teacher had “religious freedom” to preach her beliefs anywhere and everywhere she felt, and that she was being persecuted because the family asked her to STFU about her religion?

By: Angela_K

Angela_K — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:06:24 +0000

The lights on, no one at home look.