I’m a teacher in a public school. This means that as an evangelical conservative, I’m in the minority of the staff members. I don’t hide my faith, but I don’t stick it in people’s faces, either, and with students, I make sure that people of all backgrounds are accepted.
But what is interesting is that fellow staff members purposely go after me on occasion because they know my standpoint. They will do so with social issues, theological issues, and political issues. I’m regularly accused for the actions and statements of Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry. Mind you, I’ve never met these people, and I really don’t know much about them. I could care less about politics at this point in my life.
The other day, a teacher–a very vocal Buddhist–went on attack for no reason, telling me that she was sure that there was no God when she was 7, and that there is nothing after this life, but that her energy, not her conscious, will be reincarnated when she dies. She boldly complained that there was no God and that science proves it. And that my faith was useless.
Do you know what I did to spur on that remark? NOTHING. My office colleague organizes our school facility for a church that meets in our school on the weekends, and THAT set off the teacher, who addressed me because she knows that I’m a conservative Christian–even though I NEVER address my faith with her.
I don’t feel too persecuted nor offended. People in this world are regularly killed for their faith in Jesus Christ, and this teacher spouts off about stuff like this all the time. She’s lost any impact because she does so.
Meanwhile, what would happen if a Christian were to go on attack mode of people of other belief structures?
