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In reply to the discussion: Community Wants Atheist Santa Billboard Taken Down [View all]leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)I haven't really run into that with the mainstream churches like the Methodists or Presbyterians or Episcopalian or Lutheran churches. And I have lots of Catholic friends who aren't radical at all. I have known lots of really nice people who are pretty religious.
But living in the Bible Belt I am familiar with the zealots and they can be very unpleasant. I just ignore them. It's their right to believe whatever they want but I choose not to listen to it. And they are a rather small minority but they make a lot of noise. I just refuse to talk about anything religious with them. So we get along ok.
And nobody knows anything about Zen so they just leave me alone. Which is fine. Zen people are all kind of loners anyway. I really believe that mystics are just born that way. You either understand it or you don't.