Besides, I highly doubt a company of geeks is rife with religious affiliation…so, although you chose to go with eBay (which, a priori, might seem to be a good choice - but did you consider the likelihood of eBay being founded by fundies?), I probably would’ve just bought theirs, knowing that their pitiful little religion wasn’t getting the majority of my money, despite their little “Buy Jesus” ad.

Just my thoughts.

But then again…on the flip side, they might be trying to hoodwink sheeple into buying their product, and charging a higher price for it. “Hey, this is a good Christian company! I’ll buy from them! They share my beliefs, yay!”

When one can easily go to a secular site and buy the same thing, for like 10 bucks cheaper, as you did Ron.

This creates something of a dilemma for me. I love their breakfast bagels, but I refrain from eating them because they will one day kill me. On the other hand, if I hit the drive-through tomorrow morning, I’m contributing in my own small way to something that pisses people like the AFA off, and maybe that in itself is worth the risk to my arteries.

What am I worried about? McDonald’s will more than likely cave in to these pious fucks and that’ll remove any incentive to ingest their “food”.

On a related note, my work team was looking to hire a new web developer. A candidate’s portfolios consisted of a lot of church websites. Fine by me. Then I found his own small business website. He made it abrasively clear that he was Christian and his main life goal was to convert people. I followed a big link on that site to his Christ blog which talked about his adventures in converting people. Someone so willing to put their personal agenda in their work is not someone I needed to deal with.

He probably wants to work with someone christian, so I was happy to let him find a more suitable employer.

My objection is just to the people who find it necessary to push their religion onto others. I don’t see why they feel compelled to have that page on their site. But like I said in the article, it was low key. It’s not like some places I’ve been to, which blaze their fish and Bible quotes on every page.

All things being equal, I will patronize the place that isn’t trying to convert me, even politely. I’m not going to boycott the Christian business. It’s just one of many factors I consider when making a choice. In fact, if iFixit had been significantly cheaper, I would have bought from them anyway. When I saw that page on their site, I decided to spend another ten minutes just to see if there was another option.

how can we know that the unmarked places we shop at aren’t virulently fundie?

That’s why I don’t weigh the Jesus marking too heavily.

That said, many of these religious people that I know also use their money on services I do support - giving to food banks, helping elderly folks with their yard work and home repairs, checking on the needy in their area after bad storms, supporting public school programs - all without a requirement that those helped hold the same beliefs. My 50 cents of that total is hardly worth an extra hour or two trying to find a non-religious business in most cases. I think that just because they are doing what their faith says-advertise!-is not a good reason to automatically refuse to do business with them. Besides, how can we know that the unmarked places we shop at aren’t virulently fundie? The woman answering the phone, the man working in the warehouse…

(either way I rarely patronize Dominos if for no other reason than they have no coupons online when EVERY one of their competitors DOES. I’ll be damned if I’m payin full price for a pizza! greedy christians! )

Tough shit if you’re a Jew, I guess. I can never understand why these people feel compelled to make such a big deal about their beliefs. I suppose by wwyoud’s standards it’s a “tastefully done” statement… To me, it really reeks.