Religious quotes on work email

It's work (even government) correspondence and it is inappropriate. It should be forwarded to HR. It's one thing to have a sign in your cubicle - but this is unprofessional and against the law.

Send it to HR. I doubt these people have it removed from external emails, which is a huge deal. Ask HR what the policy is - just for clarification. Ask them what you can put into your emails - under the guise of trying to be compliant.

They will handle it and put a stop to it.

Peace be with you, OP. If you are so angry you can relieve yourself by going out and killing something.

Completely inappropriate!

Where is your supervisor?

I'd put on the list of Things To Deal With When Everything Else More Important Gets Fixed.

Then, when everything else more important gets fixed, deal with this.

Let he who is without sin start behaving like a bitch.

Of course, you could do the passive aggressive thing and reply, "I'm assuming you used the wrong email account by accident, as I'm sure you are aware that religious proselytizing on a government account violates the law. I'll wait to respond until you send me the message in a proper form. In the meantime, I've made a donation in your name to the Church of Satan and to Atheists for Ron Reagan. Blessings...."

In which flyover provincial shothole town do you live, OP?

In God We Trust.

I actually live in LA, R7.

If you don't think that religious fundies live everywhere in the country, then YOU are the one who is insular.

R6, you bitches always give the best advice!

You could reply with a bible quotation of your own, namely:

[quote]Matthew 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

[quote]6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Oh, L.A. Are the office fundy fraus Catholic Latinas?

How long before we become a theocratic autocracy? The needle keeps moving. Sorry you have this bs coming at you OP.

OP, have a blessed day.

Add Song of Solomon 8:8 to your email, OP. "We have a little sister and she has no breasts. What shall we do for her on the day of her betrothal?"

Nothing wrong with it

Be thankful, OP, that you don't share your office with Tashfeen Malik.

Tashfeen didn't like the Office Christmas Party so she got her guns and killed 14 of the office staff.

Time to speak to the manager, OP. Do it now-- before someone does it for you.

You should use the Prudence Pingleton "bible quote" from the 2007 movie hairspray.

It always cracks me up when Allison Janney is supposedly reading from the bible and says, "You must give your father wine, and you must lay with him." Rofl!

The OP is perfect and above criticism.

Try to find the corporate policy about appropriate email signatures. We have one. Most big companies do.

To continue what R20 write, find the pertinent policies this violates and report the individuals via the anonymous tip line or site. Many companies and government agencies have those.

Would you rather wish they told you to go to hell?

[quote] Would you rather wish they told you to go to hell?

I'd rather they didn't say anything to me at all.

I didn't solicit their advice or words of wisdom, so they should just shut the fuck up.

In my company, they would be 'counseled' and would end up being fired if they continued it. But it doesn't actually bother me. Lots of the cashiers at my grocery store wish me "a blessed day". I'll take any kind thoughts I can get.

R23 You need to share your philosophies with them.

I’ve had this three times, in various versions. One: a staff member of mine said “God Bless You” at the end of every customer interaction. I told her it didn’t bother me (it doesn’t) but it would bother someone and then I’d need to do something. I suggested she stop, but she didn’t, and her employment was terminated after a customer complained. Two: Had a staff member who put bible quotes in their email signature. I advised this was not appropriate as it didn’t meet the authorized signature block options the organization offered and requested they change it. They refused, their employment was terminated. Three: I had a staff member who was a devout Catholic. Laws changed and we were required to accept child support and welfare claims from same sex couples. He said he could not serve those customers as it was in conflict with his religious beliefs. I gave him the option to resign or do the work, that he was employed in a government job where he had agreed in writing to administer policy in an apolitical, unbiased manner when he took the job. He claimed religious discrimination. He lost. His employment was terminated. OP just alert HR under the guise of “for my own clarification” as R1 said. Just make sure you’re squeaky clean, in case they get bitchy.

Damn, R26.

Your office is HARD CORE!

Are you squeaky clean, OP, or just an intolerant office narc?

Before the next office party send them an email reminding them not to eat shellfish, rabbit, or pork and not to use mixed seed or fabrics. Of course, they shall not eat fat from ox, sheep, or goat either. Once you eliminate half of the items from their proverbial trough, their heads will explode

You should send an anonymous email with the riddle:

What's white and shoots out of the sky? The coming of the Lord

That would make the person stop.

Respond by putting your special pronouns in your sig.

The leeway given to religious nutcases in the US is outrageous

Send a long detailed email to your office friends on how you spent Sukkot. Maybe that will send the right message.

[quote] Send a long detailed email to your office friends on how you spent Sukkot

I'd rather say, "Have fun at your pagan Saturnalia celebration!" in December.

R27, not really. Just full of spoiled entitled lifers who forget they are there to perform tasks. I start off nice. But I turn into a petty slut after a few passes.

R11, Catholic Latinas don't go around quoting passages from the Bible because they've never cracked one open. It's the Pentacostal Latinos that spout Bible verses on the trains and street corners.

Just add your own:

"For God so loved the World, He committed suicide, and will destroy it all later."

-- New Testament

This is a matter for your management to decide whether it's a problem or not. They can establish an email policy prohibiting all personal expressions, including religious and political, or they can let it ride. Depends on whether there are any objections, and whether they have a spine.

It's considered religious proselytizing, and proselytizing is allowed in the workplace up to/until it becomes a disruption or employees/customers are being harassed. At that point the employer is allowed to set limits, as long as they are applied evenly and not solely focused on religious expression. Example: if they're forbidden to embed religious quotes in their email, they're also forbidden to hawk Girl Scout cookies, Tupperware, or the MLM du jour as well.

[quote] Example: if they're forbidden to embed religious quotes in their email, they're also forbidden to hawk Girl Scout cookies, Tupperware, or the MLM du jour as well.

Well that could open up a whole can of worms.

The fraus will be PISSED, if they can't get their Girl Scout Cookies!

I receive a lot of emails from military people in my job. So many of them have biblical tag lines. The marines use a lot of the biblical stuff and a lot of flat out offensive worship of weapons and military destruction. Which is kind of funny because they are supply people who experience no combat.

[quote] Just add your own:

"For God so loved his creation, he sacrificed his only begotten son as a savior and sacrifice for all mankind. Christ made that sacrifice as an inspirational act for those who would follow and emulate his path, and in fulfillment of the scripture.

Personally, I think mankind was such a disappointment to God that he sent his Son as he did, to serve as an example, that others would follow.

As for cookies, I’m reminded that the children born by Mormons are the only group which are automatically enrolled as Boy Scouts, with no application necessary. I have no idea why that it.

OP quotes from the book of Satan is your answer.

If your genitals have been damaged, stay out of church: "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord."(Deuteronomy 23:1)

"Behold with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day." (II Chronicles 21:14-15)

Divorce akin to debauchery: "Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." (Luke 16:18)

"And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son...." (II Kings 6:28-29)

It's called freedom of expression, fuckers. Glory to Satan!

Why are non-Jews quoting Jewish texts/laws that have are not relevant to them?

Oh and Moadim l'Simcha!

You are absolutely correct, OP. Take solace in knowing that, and do nothing. Complaining will probably hurt you in ways you can’t anticipate. Is it worth the cost?

I think Deuteronomy 28:17 would be an appropriate response.

A curse on your basket and your kneading trough!

My stepmother is retired now but she always had the following, from the Book of Mormon, on her emails and the back of her business cards. She also had it printed on little drawstring backpacks that held the accoutrements needed for new braces.

[quote]Feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do.

Coming from an orthodontist, it always sounded like god was commanding her patients not to eat bagels, corn on the cob, caramel, pretzels, etc.

Join in the fun by adding your own religious quotes to your office emails. Some verses from the Koran, the occasional “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn,” that sort of thing.