What about people at work who are overly religious?
What do you do about people at work who are overly religious on a daily basis? For example, I work in a 20 person office, and there are several evangelical christians who are always going around saying things like:
“This country WAS founded on christianity!”
“Prayer DOES work!”
“I put god before anything else!”
“Prayer NEEDS to go back into our schools, or we are lost!”
Etc., ad nauseum.
I can’t be blatant about my atheism, else I could be fired, but it is not a religion-based job, just non-profit. In theory they have non-discrimination policies, but…
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Do what @Nice&Neat said. Religious discrimination works a little like sexual discrimination in that if you tell them to stop and they don’t, file a complaint. But before you do it, document, document, document. You should have months and months of documentation to prove that you asked them to stop and they kept shoving it down your throat. It’s basically religious harassment and it’s creating a hostile or offensive work environment. Click here to learn how to document problems at work.
Religious Discrimination & Harassment
It is illegal to harass a person because of his or her religion.
Harassment can include, for example, offensive remarks about a person’s religious beliefs or practices. Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that aren’t very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
The harasser can be the victim’s supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm
I am the type of person that speaks about my faith at work so I understand to a certain degree where these people are coming from.
BUT at the same time if someone approached me and told me that I made them feel uncomfortable I would stop speaking to them specifically about such matters.
I think that issues which are important to people are expressed regardless of the situation but they should be respectful of their surrounding and others.
If it makes you feel uncomfortable then you should say something. Don’t be rude or mean about it but just let them know how you feel. If they are "god like" as they claim to be they will respect your feelings without taking it as a rejection to their faith.