Thank you knarf.
To be sure, I had misgivings. I think the Holy Spirit sorted out whether I should have stayed there (the answer was no).
Now some other folks I know who are good Christians as far as I can tell are there... but man, it seems to me that it would be an exercise in keeping your lamp carefully shaded. I had asked a co-worker, a gal who had a cute little trailer model in her cube with “Jesus Saves” flags flying over it, to pray for a pet who had gotten accidentally injured, and got sternly rebuked on the basis that there was “no place for religion in the workplace.” Ahem? Now maybe she was displeased with ME, but still. That’s one of the lamer excuses. Why would I as a believer ever say that? God doesn’t honor any secular doors that say “stay out” and the official policy didn’t even go THAT far.
And another Christian buddy talked almost alarmingly flippantly about how “his boss thinks he controls his time.” Ahem again?
It just looked like Compromise City to me. Maybe I could have approached it better and raised the consciousness level of fellow Christians, but still. There are problems in Houston, so to speak.
We DO have a way of one word zingers without realizing there are people with very thin skins and in so many ways .. plastic.
I've contemplated many times what a conversation would be like between me and Adams (f'rinstance)... (kind'a like doing the dozens with William F Buckley), because the difference in conversational understanding of English would be diverse enough for him to lose patience with me while I scratch my head and say, "Huh?"
We in modern America who desire the life envisioned by the founders, struggle with translating what we believe to be true into language and life others would also desire ... but they either scratch THEIR head and say, "Huh?" or just get pissed because (whether they know it or not .. and some really don't know what they're doing), they want nothing to do with the America (and her way of thought) WE want.
If it's any consolation, before I retired three years ago, I was fired from two jobs that were bogusly (huh?) fomented
I'm one of those guys the dawgs deride because I married a Filipina and have an "in" to a tropical paradise I'm endeavoring to reside ... until I die.
There's no more an interest or fun in working in the US.