Two today:
1) OK, this might be a bit touchy, but I have some very religious friends. They tend to send me religious e-mails.
I don't mind the humanist story ones, the sweet ones. I'm willing to tolerate the emotional blackmail at the end of such e-mails ("you have a choice, send this e-mail and save a soul or just delete and let the world go on as normal") because I know the sender intended the story to be positive and inspirational.
Now the downright appalling so-called "humanist" stories I send back with my shock outlined to them.
But I think it's a bit rude when I get such religious e-mails wherein the disbeliever in the story is made to say or do foolish or stupid things to prove their point (invariably something happens in the story to refute the disbeliever's claims "There is no god").
I don't think they would like it too much if I sent around agnostic/atheists stories that made the religious person look like a dupe. Again, I haven't come 'out' religiously to most of my friends since I don't really consider it any of their business, so perhaps they think they're sending these to a like-minded person. But I also know that some religions require their members to proselytize or witness to others they think may need their help.
Not sure if there is anything I can do about this. I just hit 'delete' and try not to be annoyed.
2) Pig-headed homophobes. I mentioned to my red-neck Republican friend that a gay friend was moving with his husband to a pretty small country town near us that's recently become a 'boom' town for commuters and the arts and has attracted a gay population. They are buying a fabulous historical home that's old Victorian, bricks brought in from England.
He asked what town it was and
hoped it wasn't town X as he was wanting to retire there.