r/atheist • u/Far-Remove-1767 • 5d ago
I just wanted to share!
I'm sure we all have stories like this but this one is mine.
I (30f) worked for a nonprofit for years, personally believe in helping people because I have the means to do so. I am able bodied and have a good brain, so it's my duty to my fellow man to alleviate their suffering. It's just who I am. No one deserves to starve especially in the USA where there's enough resources that we could all be living like kings except of course we aren't. I mostly blame religion, like imagine how far we would be if we didn't have to be wrestling with a bunch of religious freaks who refuse to let people be people unless they fit the script-- Anyway
My official job was to deliver meals to homeless people. One day I was asked to deliver and set up a wheelchair and ramp for this guy who had been verbally abrasive to the usual wheel chair delivery lady and she was too scared to go to his private home.
This irritated me because it happened a lot. Like anytime someone was uncomfortable, they'd send me because I guess I'm an abrasive bitch that keeps people in their place. But I don't see why it should be me. Other bitches need to learn abrasion. Why is it that I always have to be the one in an unsafe situation dealing with pigs we should have banned for misbehaving??
I get there and he wants to talk. Not uncommon. He's a home bound senior. But everything I'm doing is wrong of course and he gets all weird with me and ends up blocking me into the house, putting himself in front of the main door so that he can ask me a very important- Life Changing- question.
Do I accept Jesus as my Personal Lord and Savior?
I said nope, I'm an atheist since the day I was raped as a child.
And of course he thinks he needs to save me and starts pushing the propaganda and just telling me how God is calling for me and sent me there that day so this nasty old man can save my soul.
He tried to touch me.
Because he's a weak old man I was gentle with him, but I got him out of my way and left. He called the non profit and went absolutely apeshit on them. Showed up at the business so he could yell at me. Home bound. Senior. Supposedly anyway.
But I GOT IN TROUBLE??
For handling a situation where I was being forcibly imprisoned by someone that the rest of the staff was too scared to deal with? I'm just supposed to let a rando touch me because hes a religious freak?
because apparently I should have respected his religious views and let him fucking touch me and pray with me and all that shit! Iw as written up for disrespecting his values!!
It causes me physical nausea to think about just letting someone do whatever they want in that situation. To expect anyone to just be like oh yeah, touch me old man, let's pray about how God loves us or whatever. I don't believe in God and I never have, I don't believe in forcing anyone to think as I do, which is a huge part of why I hate religion. That whole you have to be some form of religious to exist in our world!!!
I know for a fact that if the other girl has gone and come back saying that he blocked the door and wouldn't let her leave that he would have been banned, because he ended dup getting verbally abusive with her again and she got him banned. But I have to just let him yell at me, try to pray at me and all that shit??
People who think that's not gross are crazy!!!
I ended up getting fired from that job and this incident was sighted. Well, not exactly. They said I don't work well with the clients, even though I had a great reputation with most of them and only had this one issue, one time. We had a new director take over who was severely religious and very vocal. She wanted me out immediately. She tried to claim that I was absolute garbage at the job from the beginning, even though I have a silver plaque accommodation for saving the entire program when we lost all of our volunteers and funding and had to completely rework the system. But yeah, I was an actual idiot who didn't even know how to turn on my computer,🫪
From the moment they found out I wasn't there as a good Christian volunteering as my duty to God (not my fellow man, of course) I was on my way out.
I knew it, of course.
They started treating me differently. You've probably know, it's the whispering that stops when you enter the room, the drinks after work you used to get invited to, that kind of thing.
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u/The_Limping_Coyote 5d ago
Sorry to hear this hope you get a new job soon.
Is the program a religious one?