I went to work at this place years ago and then I find out the director and top dogs in the company are bible thumpers. They were the creepy preachy kind who do whatever they want standing with the bible. I could tell from how they acted they were not good people. They were fake christians. False phohpets.

I actually know the bible and I never asked them to preach to me. I went there to work, so what I did was go buy a star of david
pendant and wore it to work. They saw and stopped preaching to me because they could be sued for not respecting my religious beliefs which are to not be preached to by a bunch of bible thumping morons who are all talk. I am not jewish but they did not know that and jews do not belive Jesus was anything but a phropet, so my plan worked and they left me alone with the preaching.

At company meetings they started to say prayer and preach a few minutes and I would not listen and sometimes even got up excusing myself during "prayer time", showing them my star of david as I got up and left.
They looked at each other and me and didn't say a word.

a year later they company closed as they were all embezzelers and they went to prison.

inspired?
true story. Other than that, I have nothing
but rats.. haha

I don't know about discrimination but I have worked at places where there have been younger people who thought it funny to make fun of me and others who are Christians. At one place I and a couple of others had to go to the GM about it. These kids thought we try to lead good, decent lives and believe in family values and have morals. I felt nothing but pity for them. They may never know the comfort that faith can give.

If there is a company that touts itself as a
"christian based company" I believe they are breaking the4 law if they ask someone being hired about their religious beliefs, so how can they do that... advertise themselves as such ?

Personally I will not deal with any company that touts itself as Christian based as I have found with my experiences that they do not prove to be the most honest people to hire ( contractors and the like ).
so how can a company that advertises its christian based....
hire christians when its against the law to hire based on religious beliefs?

tell me that college girl !
lol

Gia, I have worked with Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews. For the most part no one tried to convert anyone. Sometimes we would discuss religious differences during coffee break. We viewed it more as educational than anything else. I was talking about smart ass teenagers who think they know EVERYTHING. If you said the sun rose in the east they would argue that it rose in the west. They didn't harass just Christians they harassed everyone. I believe that if you lead a good decent life that's all that matters. I have no tolerance for bible thumpers myself. It's wrong to try and force another person to believe in only your way of thinking.

agnostic all my life until my mid 30's... saw some stuff happen and I learned about God, by the time I hit 40 I was a believer in Christ, but not the bible thumping, FEAR GOD kind.... but the relationship, not religion RESPECT GODS WORDS and have a relationship with him kind... and I am very happy to be so. I do not like discussing religion with people who say they are christians tho.... there are too many fake ones out there to be open to any teachings or input from just anyone, so I am careful to not talk much about my beliefs. I tend to watch people and how they act and not what they tell me they beleive in or know concerning God.

Coffee breaks...what's that? HA Kidding aside, I live in So Cal so we are exposed to a lot of different nationalities and different religions. We have lots of lunch meetings in this company (this office is around 400, all combined 900 - they've laid about 150 off) so we have to be careful what we order for lunch. The company is very 'family based', they let people do all kinds of flex hours around your family. Most women who take off to have babies only come back part time. They do have some interesting things that I've never experienced before. They serve alcohol on the premises. Say for instance it is XMAS and we have a decorating contest between the departments so judging is at 6 pm, they have beer and wine and pizza in the board room for everyone. We bribe the judges (the Executive Committee) with food and wine and drinks. Say it is office clean up time, (2 times a year), they bring beer around on a cart and pizza to the departments while we are cleaning our cubicles. Lots of activites for families, XMAS party with Santa, summer picnic. They also sponsor an Easter Prayer Breakfast for the entire company and clients. This was amazing to me that there are large companies out there that still do this type of thing. It's really very nice, they have different clergy there each year, they pray. We usually have around 500 people who attend, maybe half are employees and half clients. They don't force you to go, but I find it interesting that most companies would shy away from this. They celebrated the 31st annual EPB this year. We also have parking lot BBQ's last Friday of the month at noon in the parking lot. Have team building activities, and food, no alcohol at those. This Friday Carl's Jr truck will be here and we will be playin baseball. It's an interesting company...you can be as involved in any aspect as much as you like, including the religious aspect.

I don't think I've ever been discriminated against because of my beliefs. I have though walked into a patients room once...he was an elderly man, a deacon of sorts at his church. He was surrounded by a group of young men (his followers I guess), and the first thing he asked me is if I knew whether or not I was saved. Now, I believe in God, but I am also very quiet about my beliefs. I don't go around preaching but will answer questions if asked, so that really put me off. Not to mention he didn't want anything, just called me in to ask me that.

Believe it or not, I belong to an online atheist forum. Some of the members can be quite intolerant of anyone who presents a Christian viewpoint (there are a few believers on that site). They have a tendency on ganging up on one individual until they are so overwhelmed they leave. That I think is wrong. Where people got the idea that atheists worship the devil is beyond me. Basically I think there's a lot of misconception and misinterpretation of many issues, but I certainly don't think that being an atheist automatically makes one a bad person.

Good luck on your paper