Believers, what do you want from skeptics in the religion group?

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76. Thank you. My wife had a similar problem last saturday at work.

She's a cook at the university here, and there are several events and conferences here during the summer.

The previous week, the Special Olympics was held here at ISU, and this last week, it was the 2014 World Finals of the Odysey of the Mind from May 28 to May 31.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_of_the_Mind

My wife is a cook at ISU, and on Friday, one of the many volunteers (in this case, from some church in Des Moines) was working with my wife for this event. She repeatedly used the N-Word in front of my wife, which made her very angry and upset. While I can leave the Religion Forum (or indeed, all of DU if necessary) when such a thing happens, my wife unfortunately does not have this luxury when faced with the same behavior at work, since doing so would threaten her employment.

Fortunately, her boss telephoned the church in question, and informed them that this woman would not be allowed back in the kitchen at ISU from now on.

The Church agreed that this was extremely inappropriate and would not send her back.

I look forward to the day that ALL of my fellow atheists here at DU respond in a similar manner, rather than justifying and/or minimizing such behavior.

And I sincerely hope that those atheists here who do not support the use of the N-Word will forgive me for making such a broad statement, but I'm really feeling pissed about it this week.

On the bright side, lest I give the false impression that the woman who repeatedly used the N-Word in my wife's presence succeeded in ruining the entire day for her, here are a couple of photos of my wife and a student from Germany (from the Odyssey of the Mind) dancing with her in the dining room here at ISU that same day during work.

He gave his hat to my wife, and she still has it.

The world will go on, with or without those who persist in the use of such disgusting epithets, and those who defend such use.

They are the remnants of the past. We are ALL part of the future.