My meetup group meets at this unfortunate venue once a month on Thursday evening. I am not a person of faith, but a proud atheist. I was innocently and quietly standing by the door waiting for my group leader to arrive and open it. A young man from the function next door walks up to me and starts asking personal questions like "Are you okay?" and wants to know why I'm standing there. I asked "Is there a problem?" and told him my physics group meets here monthly and I am waiting. He looks away with disgust, but fortunately walks away. Five minutes later he comes back to me to introduce himself. I cannot remember his name, but he starts spouting jesus nonsense. I asked him to stop and told him I was an atheist. His next comment was that I needed jesus's love and continued his tirade. I told him to not touch me ... that he was trying to do. Regardless of where I placed the conversation, he continued with his ranting ... still I asked him to stop and threatened to call the police if he didn't cease ... at which time he went completely berserk and started performing an exorcism on me. I covered my ears from his filthy message, behaviour, and wished he'd just go away, but he continued on this way for five minutes. Once I had sensed he was finished, I told him "You know you are a mindless fool!", and told him once again to leave me alone ... which after a few more caustic remarks, he did.
I will not be treated this way. If this ever happens again I will report this church to the La Mesa city authorities. read more