Well, I won't argue with your personal experience, but it is certainly not mine. My son was once denied a job because he was Catholic.
You don't think Muslims who burn down Christian Churches or assault Christians because they worship Jesus hate them because of their faith? Or Hindus who attack Buddhists or Muslims in India?
What? What country do you live in? You should've sued the bastards, unless it was working for another religious instituion, then your on shaky ground with "freedom of religion" rights, but in that case I wouldn't want my son working for a Synagouge or Mosque anyway.
Muslims and Christians have been killing each other within countries for a long time and it's almost always over political or ethnic and even cultural differences, not "just because" the other belongs to a different religion. I'm not saying Islam doesn't have more than it's share of intolerance, but in the end, there's more to the story than that.
People just don't "hate" for no reason at all. That is totally non-sensical.
Okay. If you actually mean that very few people hate for religious reasons without some cultural, ethnic, or political factors mixed in, then I expect your are right.
My son applied for a job at a fast food restaurant in high school. When asked if he had any restrictions about when he could work, he said that he could not work on Sundays and a few other days because of his religion, specifically Good Friday and Christmas, and that there were other days he could work as long as he could go to Mass. If the manager had said, "Sorry, I can't accommodate that" my wife and I would have been annoyed, but let it go. However, he told my son that Catholicism was both stupid and idolatrous, that the Mass was a sacrilege, and that he would not hire Catholics or Orthodox because they "...worship bread and Mary." My son was dumbfounded, and came home both angry and a bit frightened. I would have considered a lawsuit, but a call to the district manager was sufficient. We received what I believe to be a very sincere apology, and the local manager was fired.
My son got a much better job a few days later working at a bookstore. The store was owned by a an observant Jєωιѕн woman, whose husband had been a customer of mine before he died. She hired my son after my wife told her this story over the back fence one day. When he told her about his religious restrictions in terms of the schedule, she was happy to accommodate them. He never worked on a Sunday. She gave him Good Friday off, and the store was closed on Christmas, not because it was important to her, but because there were no customers. After a conversation my son had with her about Catholic holy days, he gave her a copy of the calendar our parish printed. She was actually a bit over-zealous, and I eventually told her that he didn't have to have Candlemas or the Feast of St. John the Baptist off.
He worked there throughout high school and for part of college. Part of my annoyance with the anti-Jєωιѕн attitude on this board stems from my personal association with her and some other Jєωιѕн people, whom I know to be exemplary human beings.
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