What would you do in this position??, religous belifes... Options

[Valo666]

So im in school right now for automotive. My class is 21 people, 19 of which are guys. We have 2 girls. One of them happens to be extreamly extreamly religous. Like wears "have you found jesus" and "the lord is my savior" t-shirts daily. Any ways, working in a shop with mainly guys, we swear and cuss and stuff when we are working. Any guy who has had to work on somethin that wasnt easy to work on or has hurt them selves working on somethin knows about this. Any ways, so the other day i bashed my knuckels..

thats after a week of healing. I took a good chunk out of the top join of my middel finger too. It was alot worse when it happened

back on topic, when i did this i yelled out "GOD F*CKING DAMNIT!!!"..mainly cuz it hurt like hell. Any ways, this girl has givin me sh*t b4 about "taking the lords name in vain". I personaly am not religous in the slightest, havent been since i was 11. So because i said that, she yelled at me for half an hour straight about how "even though i dont belive in god, i should respect other peoples religons". Im totaly ok with that, but she honestly expects that every person in my class or in any shop ever is never gonna say "god damnit" or "jesus christ". So she got so offended by me smacking my knuckels that she actually went to the head of our department and b*tched at him for an hour, and is not trying to make it so that if we say that we are gonna get kicked out of class for the rest of the day. Heres the majour downside to this all, the head of our program and the teacher we had that day are both big on religion too. So now they are trying to force religous belifes on us and addapt our lives to what they want because of their relgion. Personaly as some one who is not religous in the slightest, i think its great for any one to belive in any thing they want, but am offended by them trying to force their belifes onto me. I know its nothing big, but I personaly hate HATE when people try and change who i am and try and force their belifes on me. Like i mean ok, if it was just me cussing once or twice she gave me crap, i would be ok with it, but its when she goes to try and make it so that we are kicked out of class, like we are in grade 3, thats where it crosses the line. Like she actually yelled at me one day saying i was supporting satan and demonic worshipings because my InFlames t-shirt had their deamon logo.

Any ways, im out of ideas of what to do, mainly cuz i dont wanna come off as a complete ass or offend her more than i already have. Like Im a nice guy, but i come off as a jack ass alot of the time. I mean, im ok with religon and peoples belifes, my girlfriend is a devote Catholic, but it just irretates me when people try and change my belifes or force theirs on me.

[b1gr3d]

to answer the question : what would i do in this situation?: - i would say this next time she said anything about it "well i respect your opinion but you also need to respect mine because i am a human being and i have the same rights as you = freedom of speech! and i am not directly trying to offend you in any way or trying to make you be a certain way, unlike you are. so my suggestion to you miss is to grow up and realize that not everyone will agree with you and that you are one of many in this world just as i am, you are no one special just as i am so get off of your high horse and come back down to reality...me saying god dammit offends you, well you saying that i CAN'T say it offends me." something like that, and by the way if you are religious and are reading this i mean no disrespect to you and i have no problem with your religion..what i have a problem with is ignorant people that are apart of a religion that teaches love and peace and that type of deal but as soon as something or someone opposes them, is different, or does not agree with their beliefs they do what this girl did....

or you could dress up in all black with eyeliner on and listen to death metal near her....that would get a reaction out of her

This post has been edited by b1gr3d: Apr 13, 2007 - 1:23 AM