Do you talk about religion with your CW?

MaryJaneWatz

I work with a pretty close group and I'd say 95% of them have Christian beliefs and attend church regularly. Things like the Bible, religious movies/books and prayer come up in conversation regularly. This morning one of my CWs came in talking about a movie he saw over the weekend called Couragous. He was telling the girl next to me about it and I chimed in that I saw a preview for it over the weekend and it looked good.

I went on to tell the girl next to me that H didn't have any interest in it b/c it's a religious movie. She questioned at that and I told her my H is agnostic and generally not interested in that type of movie. She looked at me and said something like "I don't know how someone could not believe. When he doesn't go to Heaven....". I tuned her out then. It really made me mad.

Talking about these things at work has never bothered me before now. I think I'm going to just have to start keeping my opinions to myself.

ClaireDunphy

No.

Except I know I've talked religion with LB (former CW) & Sikes (current CW), but I don't think either of them really count since the basis of our relationship is outside the office.

PantsOffDanceOff

No one in my core group is overly religious, at least not enough to talk about it on a regular basis. Certainly no judging for us heathens that don't attend church.

duncanpowers

I really guard my business with anyone I work with, in or out of the office, particularly with religion. Religion is so personal and everyone's beliefs are so different even within the same church. I rarely even discussed what I believed with people at the churches I've attended over the years, because there is always someone who thinks they're holier or have a better interpretation of what you just said or don't make the exception you make or God said xyz directly to them, and then you end up wanting to smack them. So, it is rarely worth it.

Mrs_Link

It comes up occasionally. Our workplace is very open and all of us are very careful to be respectful of one another beliefs.

LXLX

Hahahahaha... no. I am on the other side of the political/religious spectrum from everyone else in my office. They're very open in talking about their beliefs, but I'm pretty sure I would be shunned if they knew mine. At the very least, they would look at me completely different.

chinchilla fiesta

Lucille Bluth:

I am on the other side of the political/religious spectrum from everyone else in my office. They're very open in talking about their beliefs, but I'm pretty sure I would be shunned if they knew mine. At the very least, they would look at me completely different.

This is me too.  I've got one coworker who I can be very open and have great conversations with but as a whole I tend to just keep quiet.

ClaireDunphy

Lucille Bluth:

Hahahahaha... no. I am on the other side of the political/religious spectrum from everyone else in my office. They're very open in talking about their beliefs, but I'm pretty sure I would be shunned if they knew mine. At the very least, they would look at me completely different.

I feel this way sometimes at my company. There's one woman who is a higher up & she LOVES to let her political opinion be known... But I don't think she realizes there's anything contraversial about what she says. She just thinks thats how we all think.

PantsOffDanceOff

My last job I was surrounded by holy rollers and I always knew they were judging me, I hated that.

MaryJaneWatz

I talked this over with H last night and I've decided I just need to learn to keep my mouth shut. I'm trying to get better at separating work me and actual me and this will be good practice.

mon.petit.chou

I don't really talk about it. I may have mentioned something about my church once or twice so that's a hint for people, but that's about the extent of it. I used to share an office with a guy who would say things like your CW said and it was really annoying. I feel like even if I agreed with some of the stuff he was saying, it really just turns people off and is not a good way to reach out to people.

Mrs_W_Pookie

I don't really, only because I don't know enough about most Christian denominations to have an intelligent conversation with someone.  People will ask me questions about certain holidays since I am Jewish, but I typically only answer those and don't discuss actual beliefs.