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By Jim Downard
How do you respond to awkward situations at work when you work with very hardcore theists? I don’t want to get into debates with them, but when they talk about what they believe and their insistence of going to church, I have a hard time biting my tongue.
I’m retired now, but when I was in the workforce I only rarely encountered proselytizing believers, but did bump into a few over the creation/evolution issue, which, since I was better-informed than they were on the facts, was more a matter of countering their claims for those observing our lunchtime interactions. More generally, since Christianity at least is at heart an evangelical “share the Good News to all” religion, that a believer feels obligated to do exactly that has never been a problem for me, nor do I take offense to it. However, I did not feel obliged to remain silent if they made questionable claims about history or science based on their conviction, but everybody has to pick their battlegrounds based on their own situation, knowledge and personal comfort levels in the “conversation as contact sport” department.
