What Is the Proper Reaction to a Personal Statement of Religious Belief?

[2naSalit]

16. Interesting you should bring this up...

I endured such a situation earlier this week and it left me wondering the same things about it since.

I was kind of trapped as I was having my teeth cleaned and the hygienist started in with what I felt was a handful of inappropriate topics including her religious beliefs.

She started in with a complaint about her health insurance and how she tried to apply for Medicaid and when she entered he income she was transferred to "Obamacare"! Like it was some kind of conspiracy. I explained that it was the Affordable Care Act that made it possible for her to shop for insurance and that it was a good thing and she should be thankful. Then I told her she made too much money to be on Medicaid.

Then she went into the religious stuff, not sure how that segued into that area, but she was prying and I got annoyed so I told her that I practice what I learned from my Indian friends and I don't talk about it to people outside the circle. But then she wanted to know what her dreams meant and I soon had to ask her to just do her job, which she wasn't very good at and didn't seem to know much about what she was doing, claimed she was a "sub". If I hadn't really needed to get the procedure done, I would have rescheduled. I'll know better next time.

I grew up with zealots, it's best to engage in a noncommittal conversation with them, if they get too pushy about it, I claim to be nonsubscribing to any organized religion and tell them that I belong to the religion of 2naSalit and I'm the only member and they wouldn't "get it".