Biblical Response to Preachy Christians

I thought this was Amurica!

Living in the United States, there is just no escape from Christians. They are everywhere. Seventy-three percent (73%) of Americans identify as Christian. Eighty-eight point eight percent (88.8%) of Congress is Christian. And a whopping 100% of American presidents have been Christian. How is a non-religious person to navigate day-to-day interactions without feeling hopelessly outnumbered?

Well, thankfully, a good portion of those Christians are what I call "not complete dicks about it." And God bless them for that. "Not being a complete dick" about your religion entails:

• Realizing that not everyone has "faith" in the fundamental truth of some old, variously translated tome.
• Realizing that even fewer people have faith in the additional little nuggets of dogma that your particular sect has adopted since that tome's creation.
• Generally being respectful of the fact these other people who don't share your beliefs would prefer not to have to hear about them.

Unfortunately, that leaves plenty of room for the remaining Christians who are less aware of these rules, or worse, Christians who believe they need to educate the heathen masses about God's occasionally murderous tendencies hatred of gays complete indifference to human suffering word. And everybody has a few on their social media feeds.

So the next time you see one of their (not-so) passive-aggressive Bible verse or general "Hooray, I love Jesus" posts, consider speaking to them in their own language and hitting them with this bad boy:

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 

Matthew 6:5-6. A beautiful little admonishment, right (purportedly) from the mouth of Jesus, not to wave your faith in people's faces. This line is largely glossed over by the more evangelic Christian sects even though it shouldn't be: it's part of Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount" in which he gives us such gems as the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer.

So give it a try.  It's worth a shot.*

*Probably not worth anything.