Rusting Car Bumper

A recent thread called <a href="http://iidb.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=59&t=000891" target="_blank">Any Cases of atheist vandalism</a> discusses if anyone has vandalized 10C momuments and such.

I would like to flip the question around? Has anyone been vandalized or otherwise harrassed for non-belief?

DC

GaryP

My family was harrassed and even threatened during the '99 holiday season when it became known that I had requested equal time on our town square with the city's Nativity Scene.

Numerous anonymous messages truly made me feel Jesus' love that glorious season!

It certainly made me feel a bit differently about some of my Christian neighbors.

I am

It's a little trivial, but a bumper sticker (God is just pretend) was ripped off of my truck and placed, partialy shredded, upon my doorstep. I took this as an anomymous threat, and repasted the sticker, this time on the door of my truck, with the additional message "Vandalism does not change the truth!". I left the rebuke on my truck for about three months and finally tired of it and removed it. So there it is... the worst thing that has ever happened to me.

And in response to your other thread; no, I have never vandalized anyone else's property, but I have gotten religous material removed from a business simply by asking an employee.

Pugilist Atheist

I grew up in Kingsville, Texas which, in 1970 was one of the few "dry" counties in South Texas (you could buy beer and wine, but you had to go elsewhere to buy liquor).

My dad is an atheist and although he didn't advertise it, we were known in the neighborhood as "the family who didn't go to church". In those days, it was like being known as "the family who kidnaps children and sacrifices them to the Prince of Darkness". A lot of the parents in the neighborhood wouldn't let their kids play with us and my older brothers got in a lot of fights at school. By the time I started school, the fact that I had two older brothers who had been in a lot of fights made things a bit easier for me, so I never experienced what my brothers went through.

From what my dad tells me, not going to church would have been okay in itself, but my dad threw parties where alcohol was served and even worse, people danced (gasp!).

beejay

I filed suit to have the 10C display in front of the local courthouse removed.

I've received a few threatening phone calls and a number of unpleasant ones. There have been no physical attacks.

(I also received a number of calls of support from Christian ministers, so I try not to ascribe the phone calls as typical Christian behavior.)

Melkor

I used to have a Darwin Fish on the back of my car. One evening last year I went to a local grocery store to pick up some things for dinner. When I came out, I noticed immediately that it was gone.

The area in which I live is pretty saturated with zealots that have no qualms about doing this kind of thing (theft, vandalism) with the apparent idea in mind of harming someone else's property being okay as long as it's someone who doesn't share their beliefs. What a "Christian" thing to do.

The area in which I live is not an area that I feel very "safe" in publically admitting to anyone that I'm an atheist. I fear that if I do, there will be more vandalism than just ripping something off of my car...

The Admiral

I am one of only two people in this area who openly identify themselves as Atheist in letters to the editor and every one who knows me knows that I am an Atheist. I have never suffered any harassment beyond getting anonymous letters from people who feel so sad that I am going to have to burn in hell when I die. I had a State/Church keep em seperate bumper sticker on my previous truck for thirteen years and got no reaction at all, on my new truck I have a Darwin fish and I'm not sure anyone even notices it. I think they are to small. I'd like to have one about twice the size.

The Admiral

Hypatia

Like Melkor I have had Darwin fish vandalized: one evening when I was getting into my car after work I noticed its tail sitting on my driver's seat. Apparently during the day someone had broken it off and (politely, I guess) slipped the broken tail through my slightly opened window for me to find. Later another piece was broken off, but I'm not sure where that happened. The previous Darwin fish was pried off my car -- I could see incriminating finger prints/marks in the road grime.

Melkor

.... Bunch of savages...

*grumbles*

banditoloco

Are you serious, or is that just a humorous reference to "Footloose" (Is that the right movie?). I didn't think towns that despised dancing as much as the one in that movie actually existed.