Now there's a good word. Gobsmacking.
I just saw in the paper that a nurse who is a Christian has been suspended for "attempting to force her Christian faith on others". The woman had merely offered to pray for an elderly patient.
Everyone knows those hard-core evangelistic types; the guys with the placards with various combinations of the words "REPENT" and "NIGH" written on them. People who condemn others for not conforming to their own beliefs. That is what I would call attempting to force the Christian faith on others. Not this nurse's friendly and well-intentioned offer, no matter how much you disagree with her religion.
I have people coming up to me in the street offering me literature about Hindu sects; I'm not going to report them for it, I just smile and decline. I don't feel forced, coerced or pressurized and a minute later I've forgotten all about it. Whoever decided to report this nurse - and those that suspended her - for something that is completely inoffensive and was meant kindly need to realise that this isn't even political correctness - it's completely absurd.
Bearcub
Bloody nonsense. Totally. I never feel pressured if someone wants to talk to me about religion. I just smile sweetly and remind them that God made the Earth in six days. In my eyes, he should have spent a few months getting it right then millions wouldn't die each year in natural disasters... I'm a bastard to the overtly religious converters. Irony is that I do believe in a God, although I prefer the term "the old one" coined by Einstein.
PS Hello - how's you!x