RELIGIOUS REACTION TO UFOs COSTS MAN HIS JOB

[CNI News notes with concern that some people of fundamentalist religious persuasion are becoming more and more hostile toward people who claim an interest in UFOs. Some months ago, we reported that televangeleist Pat Robertson, on his nationwide "700 Club" TV program, proclaimed that UFO experiencers and researchers should be stoned for consorting with demonic forces. Now, in the following text, a CNI News reader tells us how he lost his job for speaking about his UFO experiences. The man's name is withheld, along with the name of his ex-employer. This item appeared in the February 1, 1998 edition of CNI News.]

I started a new job about three weeks ago, and was shocked to see a man already working there who seems to have made it his life's work to convert me to Christianity, never mind that I'm already a Christian, baptised in the Southern Baptist Church many years ago.

He believes that anyone who reports seeing a UFO is consorting with Satan. And, this is exactly what he started spreading around the jobsite. I began getting strange questions from people I barely knew, and knew where it was coming from. However, I'm one of those people whose code of honor demands a straight answer to a straight question, and I began trying to control the damage by answering as simply as I could while adhering strictly to what I perceive as the truth. But, I discovered this whole crew is apparently [in] his congregation, or something similar, and, no matter what I said, it just escalated.

Yesterday, he cornered me in an operating unit (literally), and began his rant, swearing that he had a duty to God to convert me and save my soul, demanding loudly that I foreswear Satan and repent, while I tried to calm him down, tell[ing] him I'm already a Christian and really didn't care to become a member of his flock. When I finally worked my way around him, he RAN for the boss's office. I just threw up my hands and gathered up my tools, but nothing was said to me as he dragged a string of witnessess into the office, one by one.

I just waited, and, this morning, they called a meeting of those testifying against me, without inviting me, so I knew that by noon, I'd be gone. True to my prophecy, I was out the gate at exactly noon. However, they did have the courtesy to finally call me in, ask my side of the story (which, without hope, I told as simply as possible) and explain that I was scaring some people, and it would be better if I left.

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