If it happens to me, it depends on who's doing it and where.
If it's online, I call them out.
If it's irl, and I know the person can't be reasoned with, I ignore them.
If it's irl, and I think it was unintentional or could be fixed, I try to explain why they're wrong to say that.

Entries like this leave me wondering, what church do you guys go to? A suggestion, find a different chruch.

I guess I need to be more thankful. My naiveté on things like this, indicates a blessed life.

Or maybe it indicates a more normal experience

@LookingforAngels2@xanga - same here i see these comments all the time. but never first hand and always on line. 

@trunthepaige@xanga - just to back up what
@destroyerofdrama@xanga - said, these things don't always happen in churches, it is usually in the everydayness of life, when the religious mask is dropped that these things get said out loud.  I have been pretty fortunate in the churches I have attended not to have to much of this directed at me, but I have certainly heard it directed at others, under all kinds of guises.

Christians seem to forget that God can see them in places like Xanga and Revelife as well.

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I can't describe the number of times people have said things like this to me.  At a bus stop, shoving pamphlets of Jesus in my face, telling me to accept the Lord or to burn in hell.  Preaching at me, asking me "Have you read the bible?" and if I reply with no, I most certainly receive the most degrading of stares.

Should anyone be able to see my tattoo which is carefully covered on my back, I'm sure I would get a number of heathen-related remarks. 

The whole sex before marriage?  Everyone gets it but these drive-by Christians. 

The best part is, almost every single fecking one of them has done what I've done or WORSE. 

So to this poster I thank you most sincerely for acknowledging the faults of some of those of your religion, and especially for apologizing in participating on your part.

Yeah, it's happened to me a lot. I guess the best you can do is pray for them and try very hard not to shoot them back but rather "kill them with kindness". It hurts, a lot. I know I've been a victim just as many times as I've been a convict. Just try to remember that Jesus said to forgive them "70x7". Let God do the judging. That's his job.

Is it telling that Christians say the exact same things to me now that I'm an ex-Christian as when I was one of them?

The only thing that has changed is how they say it.  Christians so easily forget that atheists are people too.  We laugh, love, and live our lives the same as everyone else.  So why do you get angry that we dare to exist?  (I have seen this sentiment expressed by Christians when atheists aren't around.)  Why get up in our faces and tell us how we're going to hell because we're not like you?

You write about how much better Christians should be treating each other than they are.  How much more should you extend that same treament to those who judge Christianity by your every word and deed?

to answer the question, i usually shoot back. i've learned that when you "turn the other cheek" people take it as an invitation, and eventually, you run out of cheeks.  in the movies, when the offended party responds with meekness,  everyone around rallies to them and the offender realizes their mistake, in real life, people dont stop attacking unless they realize it can pose a very real health hazard.

@ionekoa@xanga - Agreed.

That's a good way of putting it: drive-by shootings.  It's an attack, and it's even more hurtful because it lacks passion.  There's no reason for it, you don't particularly dislike the person (in many cases you don't particularly care about them one way or the other), you are "just venting."

speaking of shooting back... i think i will. perfect example. there is a xanga member, who claims to be a christian, claims to value people and friendship, but when someone blocked her from their site she went on the attack calling them childish and immature, and of course getting her readers to chime in. when i called her on this, the attack shifted, going so far as to call me worthless. of course a 3rd party xanga member whom i commented to about it, while the 2 of them go on and on about how meaningful their relationship is(over xanga) replied "what does it matter what a girl on xanga in malaysia thinks?" and proceded to tell me i was wrong to be offended. so... cake and eat it too, their genuine real loving relationship based on xanga is important and valid, but if an offense is made it is not? i call BS.

versagratis(formerly freeeverse) and danishdoll.  people like this make me sick of the human race, full of themselves and their own "goodness". if anyone offends them they demand recompense, but if they offend someone else they expect that person to just "get over it." this is the world of western christianity.

where do i begin?