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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am riding along this morning on the bike trail. This guy pulls onto a road that crosses the trail
and rolls his window down. I stop and he asks me how far the trail goes. I tell him how far it is each away on the trail.
Then out of the blue he says "We need to put prayer back in schools and I think Trump will do it". From the look of him I don't think he has been on bike for 40 year or better, I think the only reason he stopped was to tell me he wants prayer in school and Trump is going to do it. I just told him I had to go rather than engage the idiot in any argument. Besides that there was nobody else around and the fool
could have just shot me. He was obviously nuts anyway since he was a Trump person.
redwitch
(14,957 posts)That was a little too strange. He should go into a closet and pray.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Glad You didn't experience anything more negative than that! But wth? ?!
Stay safe out there!
doc03
(35,488 posts)Pennsylvania plates stops me to say we need prayer in schools and he thinks Trump will do it.
Strange indeed.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)..pepper spray. Which I do! These freaks are NUTS. Stay safe out there!
doc03
(35,488 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)"pepper spray or something ELSE! " ..You read my mind! I don't enCourage violence or escalating a situation, but these are not normal times OR normal people.
..Penn plates, & he is asking about the trail? I was thinking he was wondering where to dump a body or something, and that was before I read the prayer - trump nonsense! Yikes!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts).
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Squinch
(51,105 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)They like putting on shows in public
cutroot
(877 posts)would be pointless and worthless. Most of these trump supporters are now feeling the pinch and they want vindication. Give them nothing.
BSdetect
(9,001 posts)when I'm confronted by fools like that I love to play mind games on them, try to out tRump them. It can be quite entertaining.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)I'm sure that Jared prays every day.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)tefilin.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Betsy De Vos is a pagan witch and tRump knew about her when she was appointed. Tell him you've already seen small children playing with sticks like they were magic wands, and if he wants to keep children safe he'd better clean up all the sticks from all the school yards. That would keep him busy.
EarthFirst
(2,907 posts)Probably wise you didn't engage.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)"Isn't he great? Gotta admire what he's doing in Palm Beach! He's really been cleaning up at that Lara Mago club!"
rurallib
(62,508 posts)and be in praise of Trump. That should make that guy happy.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)"Trump hasn't got a prayer!"
They_Live
(3,252 posts)I like that.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)lady lib
(2,933 posts)right before the graded exams are handed back?
AllaN01Bear
(19,042 posts)churh and state sepration. humbug, someone on here said that tRump supporters sound like russion bots , and they are always spouting the talking points.
tiptonic
(765 posts)Opiate of the masses.
magicarpet
(14,258 posts)..... smile pleasantly.... then move quickly along as soon as possible without making a fuss. Thank your lucky stars and your hasty exit.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Then, yeah, ride it like you stole it.
Martin Eden
(12,894 posts)... the government will control it.
Let's see how happy this idiot is when the government dictates the religion of all students must be represented and the idiot's kids/grandkids are led in prayer recitals from the Koran.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)and the dude on my right knocks on the wall and said, "Hey, I think we need to put prayer back in schools and I think Trump will do it!"
Needless to say I dropped my load and got the hell outta there.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)on Doc's bike path! Yikes!
Spoooky!
3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)I would be tempted to say, "You're right. I would be praying to be left alone by fucking weirdos like you."
retrowire
(10,345 posts)On how spontaneous OP's scenario was lol.
Lucky Luciano
(11,269 posts)3catwoman3
(24,172 posts)Hair on-the-back-of-the-neck-standing-up creepy strange.
I'm glad you beat it out of there.
DeminPennswoods
(15,310 posts)Hired a local rug cleaning outfit and not only got the rugs cleaned, but a free evangelical come to Jesus pitch too. What goes through a business person's mind that they think bringing up any of the 3 taboo topics sex, religion or politics is a good idea?
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,861 posts)I just told him I had to go rather than engage the idiot in any argument.
I wandered into a local bar a few years ago and a tattoo-covered fellow approached me to say he'd never seen me in there before. He initially seemed to be recruiting me to become a "regular" in that place. Then he started sharing white supremacist ideas, and I expressed some contrary views. (Not too much because it was obvious that I wasn't going to sway him anyway.) He glared at me as he walked away.
I should've immediately left that place, but I stuck around for a couple hours to play darts and the like.
As I left and starting walking in the direction of my car, I was knocked out from behind, robbed and ultimately spent the night at an ER. I'm probably lucky to be alive.
In your case, the person was probably a "harmless" Evangelical (but it's smart to not make such an assumption). They're not actually harmless because many of them have no qualms about imposing their beliefs on others, but many of them are so obsessed and deluded with their beliefs that they think they're actually helping this country with such authoritarian actions.
Think of people like Pat Robertson declaring that God punished New Orleans with a hurricane. Once people start thinking along those lines, it's understandable that they'd think they're actually helping everyone by forcing them to comply with THEIR rules.
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