Bad Deals

You're pulled aside at work by a coworker and asked not to talk about church or related ideas in the breakroom as part of a little deal.

Christians, at a new workplace you were hired for a few days ago, you’re pulled aside and asked to make a deal. You’re told that some people in the breakroom find it difficult to hear you talking on the phone about activities at your parish because they have had some problems with religion and ideas associated with that way of thinking in the past. He tells you that if you just wait to make those kinds of calls until you get home, no one will get upset and everyone will have a happier breakroom.  You’re hesitant at first, but thinking your accepting a handshake from across the aisle and making a fair deal, you agree.  However, off the phone, you’re soon more aware of what your colleagues are talking about in the breakroom, and they’re often topics that seem to attack your ideas in the most upsetting ways. 

 

They are talking derisively about political ideas and candidates you support as a Christian.  They’re expressing their disdain for conservatives in one conversation and then talking condescendingly about the US in another.  They’re also praising someone from the news who is known to make antisemitic comments.  However, you have been made to feel that you aren’t supposed to talk about your ideas and way of thinking.  Your voice has been silenced to allow other people to say what they want about people who think like you without any kind of dialogue.     

 

You have made a deal that has effectively shut you down.  Christians, if other people are allowed to talk about their ideas in relation to certain topics, you should be allowed to talk about yours.  You're not forcing your ideas on anyone.  You shouldn't be excluded from the conversation either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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