Is this a normal occurrence?

WesMurray · Sep 30, 2016

Sounds like Westboro Baptists.

It is not normal. Well at least not where I live.

Aryeh Jay · Sep 30, 2016

WesMurray · Sep 30, 2016

I feel like that is quite abnormal for Michigan

LordDuncanBurneWilke · Sep 30, 2016

Sounds odd for sure. You probably misheard. I bet she was saying she fell and she was hoping to buy some rice for dinner. And then was talking about allowing her to show you a flow chart on the advantages of thermal dynamics.

Robban · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
An unusual thing happened to me this morning as I was waiting in line at the grocery store to pay for 6 cabbages I needed for lunch (I am a chef at a corporate dining facility). There was a family in front of me paying for their doughnuts and the 12-13 year old daughter proudly exclaimed and told me that I was going to hell. I replied “Well that’s swell”, simply because it rhymed. She then lays into me about accepting Christ or else and letting Jesus into my heart and so forth. As they were leaving and I am putting cabbage on the conveyor her mother congratulates her on her witnessing and sharing the gospel.

Is this normal Christian behavior or did something happen over the last few years that I missed?

Not all children like cabbage, so what's up with this guy, he's buying six. Hehe.

Aryeh Jay · Sep 30, 2016

LordDuncanBurneWilke · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
That was another thing I thought, that perhaps my basket full of cabbage somehow labeled me as a Satanist or something even more diabolical. Because really, who buys cabbage at 7 in the morning other than Satanists.

Cabbage at 7 in the morning?! Perhaps you are deserving of the fires of hell good sir!

awitch · Sep 30, 2016

Even in here in Jersey, the rudeness capital of the world, that's bizarre.

Shiloh Raven · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
An unusual thing happened to me this morning as I was waiting in line at the grocery store to pay for 6 cabbages I needed for lunch (I am a chef at a corporate dining facility). There was a family in front of me paying for their doughnuts and the 12-13 year old daughter proudly exclaimed and told me that I was going to hell. I replied “Well that’s swell”, simply because it rhymed. She then lays into me about accepting Christ or else and letting Jesus into my heart and so forth. As they were leaving and I am putting cabbage on the conveyor her mother congratulates her on her witnessing and sharing the gospel.

Is this normal Christian behavior or did something happen over the last few years that I missed?

That is bizarre and disturbing.

tatteredsoul · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
That was another thing I thought, that perhaps my basket full of cabbage somehow labeled me as a Satanist or something even more diabolical. Because really, who buys cabbage at 7 in the morning other than Satanists.

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Unfortunately, I can see that being plausible in general.

Buying cabbage at 7am is kinda funny, though.

Honestly, 90% of what you described wasn't weird. If you didn't mention the parent congratulating her daughter on a job well done, it would have been a "cute...kinda creepy kid talking abut Jesus." That has happened to me before many times, but I grew up in Texas... so it was normal.

The parent congratulating, instead of nervously apologizing or something, is what makes this very "interesting."

Aryeh Jay · Sep 30, 2016

awitch · Sep 30, 2016

Don't leave us in suspense. Did being told you're a horrible person who deserved eternal torture make you suddenly abandon your faith and just accept everything Christianity says you should?

Robban · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
Here is the thing that really gets me; I do not dress like my avatar in public. I have on a blue long sleeve cotton shirt, cotton khaki pants, black shoes and socks and a regular belt. I look like every other corn fed Midwestern slightly balding 40ish dude. There is/was nothing, other than my obscene fetish with cabbage, that would have labeled me as a non-Christian worthy of such attention.

I am wondering if she does this to every stranger she meets or if it is something she can’t control. The cashier was also weirded out by the outburst.

Sounds like something out of the documentry,"Lord, save us from your followers"

But seriously, you should really stop wearing those false Dracula teeth,
you can scare the wits out of anyone, and at 7am, O'boy.

Aryeh Jay · Sep 30, 2016

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I don’t know what I feel anymore…

Aryeh Jay · Sep 30, 2016

LordDuncanBurneWilke · Sep 30, 2016

Christians aren't supposed to be jerks. At least that's what the scriptures say. But alas everyone is human so what can one expect.

Albion · Sep 30, 2016

Even the fundamentalist zealots I've encountered in my life have never behaved like that, let alone allow their small children to take it up on their own. What led her to think you needed saving, I'm wondering. I'm guessing that it wouldn't be cabbages.

FenderTL5 · Sep 30, 2016

Aryeh Jay said:
An unusual thing happened to me this morning as I was waiting in line at the grocery store to pay for 6 cabbages I needed for lunch (I am a chef at a corporate dining facility). There was a family in front of me paying for their doughnuts and the 12-13 year old daughter proudly exclaimed and told me that I was going to hell. I replied “Well that’s swell”, simply because it rhymed. She then lays into me about accepting Christ or else and letting Jesus into my heart and so forth. As they were leaving and I am putting cabbage on the conveyor her mother congratulates her on her witnessing and sharing the gospel.

Is this normal Christian behavior or did something happen over the last few years that I missed?

Depends on the locale and particular denominational adherence of the family.
In parts of the rural south, I would tend to say it's not THAT uncommon.
In fact it would've been encouraged and typical of the group in which I grew up (but left).
For the not so brazen, there were 'Chick Tracts' that would be distributed.

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