Featured Religious Discrimination

That's just the point- ALL criticism is constructive. You just have to learn how to take it.

 

Not Sure I agree...

Mex...I'm not sure I can agree with the above emboldened part of your post. I have encountered people who criticize BECAUSE that is their nature and they mean it in a mean and destructive way. That said though I will agree that if the hearer can objectively take something positive out of the critics "barbs" then that speaks volumes towards the nature and strength of HIS character.
As to my comments on pg.1 of this thread about my own resume, I have chosen to make it plain in the "personal information" section of my resume which I distribute both in person and on-line with internet job boards that I am a born-again Christian who attends church. In addition, in my personal contact information on that resume my personal Email address includes (in part)the screenname TrustingChrist. I make these things plain because I want people to know at least basically what I am UP FRONT. It is,however, up to me to live up to that. I know it is possible that putting that information out there in such a manner may limit some of the opportunities that come my way. As to the kind of possible discrimination brother Evangelist is talking about...well..if it happens, it happens. It should be no surprize in the world we find ourselves in today.
Companies that are hiring have every right to try and determine the nature of the people they are trying to hire and they are looking for people that will be a good "fit" for their companies goals and needs. We as Christians, should always try to be sensitive to how the Lord is leading us about the vocations we choose. There are opportunities (and the need) for some of us to be "shining lights in places of darkness" in the secular places of this world....and there are also opportunities for people to serve the Lord in full-time ministries in a Christian "environment". Some people are better equipped and suited for one or the other. Our "job" is to be dead to this flesh and filled with the Spirit and His fruits so that we can be a living display of the character of the Lord Jesus Christ regardless of where we go or what we do.:thumbsup:

Bro.Greg:saint:

 

My point exactly. I cannot change the critics but I can change myself.

 

We can disagree. It's not my job to judge the critic's motive.

 

Allow me to provide an example from a recent interviewing committee I was part of: we asked the gentleman about a comment he had made on his resume. He explained by talking about how his predecessor had a nervous break-down.

It was very easy to look through his previous employer's records and find out who his predecessor was. In other words, this gentleman had shared medically-related knowledge about someone else, and we had no idea if he had been granted permission by the individual or anyone else to share such information. Which made us wonder, if we hired him, what sensitive information would he share with others about us or our clients?

He was just stating facts; but we didn't hire him.

 

Looks like you took it the wrong way. *sigh*

 

As I understood your initial post, you were blaming an interview that went poorly on the interviewer's bias toward your religion. Making unflattering statements about previous coworkers usually does little to help make a good impression. Judging strictly by what you wrote, it seems unfair to claim religious discrimination for an interview that didn't go well.

If I have offended you, I apologise.

 

You know, in all fairness, before I became a Christian (in 1990) I was one of those who could be pretty abusive to Christian. I scoffed at some of the things that Christian said. (Oddly enough I was raised in the S. Baptist church and always always believed in Jesus and God). That's not the same thing as being a Christian though.

Later, after I became a Christian, I began to experience some religious discrimination (actually quite a bit). I worked at a University and you can imagine what Christians can encounter in that atmosphere. Ridicule because I didn't want to go out a party like the others. Ridicule because I didn't go along with what some professors and their followers claimed.

Honestly though...that's not real persecution...not like what some Christians in other parts of the world experience.

 

Perspective is everything. You said it better than I did.