Religion in the Restrooms

[ChelsieFrank]

I work for a fast food chain (hint: giant glowing consonant) and in our area we have a couple religious fanatics. No one has ranted in the store or anything but we do get these little stapled booklets about Jesus and the Bible.
I don't know what possessed them to think that the Golden Arches is a den of thieves and harlots who need spiritual guidance, but at least once a week I find a few of these things scattered through lobby and for some odd reason they always leave a bunch in the restrooms. No, not on the sink or the hand-dryer, in the individual stalls.

Who are "they?" I don't know. I never see them; they're like the Jesus Publicist-Ninjas. A few of my co-workers told me that they sometimes get these things handed to them in drive-thru but could not give me an accurate description.

They always contain some little story in which one party refuses to accept Jesus and is cast into Hell, while the other characters are saved and enter Heaven. Some of them are liberal bashers but most are of the Sunday School persuasion.

My problem: What do I do with them? It's just one more thing I have to clean up when I make my rounds since I seriously doubt anyone is going to question their religious choices in a grungy bathroom stall.

Normally I throw them out but lately I've taken to gathering them, I've started quite the collection at home.

[Rapscallion]

Tracts?

If you don't want them, throw them in the paper recycling.

Rapscallion

[Aldous]

Put a pamphlet of another religion in the bathroom, and whoever comes out yelling and screaming that there is "Unholy Scripture" in the crapper, that's your culprit. Or at least someone that you don't want to deal with. It's a win-win!

[powerboy]

Dude, seriously. IF you don't want them, just toss them.

[Pedersen]

Look anything like the stuff at this site? http://www.chick.com/default.asp

If so, I'd either toss them to the recycling or in the garbage, depending on local laws.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Put a pamphlet of another religion in the bathroom, and whoever comes out yelling and screaming that there is "Unholy Scripture" in the crapper, that's your culprit. Or at least someone that you don't want to deal with. It's a win-win!

Make it a pamphlet on Satanism, then you'd definitely catch the guilty party.

[Tria]

Make it a pamphlet on Satanism, then you'd definitely catch the guilty party.

The Chtulu parody of a chick tract is fun....

[csdrone]

The Chtulu parody of a chick tract is fun....

Who will be eaten first? LOVE that tract!

[JustADude]

To the Christians in the forum, let me just apologize before I even get started, since what I'm about to say is pure Ebil.

Now that that's out of the way... my first thought when reading exactly where in the bathroom the tracts were left was "Eh, not as soft as toilet paper, but nicely poetic..."

[bigjimaz]

Make it a pamphlet on Satanism, then you'd definitely catch the guilty party.

Not to mention a whole different kind of SC who might take offense to said Satanic literature and cause the owner/manager an entirely different stream of headaches.

[Tria]

Now that that's out of the way... my first thought when reading exactly where in the bathroom the tracts were left was "Eh, not as soft as toilet paper, but nicely poetic..."

Why not? I got halfway through Genesis when I was even more broke than I am now.... That paper leaves a nasty rash though....

[Will-Mun]

Yeah were they Chick Tracts!? Those things are great, simply because they're so RIDICULOUS! Anyone read the DnD Chick Tract? (probably one of the more famous ones) Man... It was just completely awful.

"Not Black Leaf!"

Enjoy

As for what you actually need to do? Put a sign on the door "Please do not leave reading materials in the stalls." That way you're not singling them out, and still keeping their trash outa the bathroom.

To the Christians in the forum, let me just apologize before I even get started, since what I'm about to say is pure Ebil.

Now that that's out of the way... my first thought when reading exactly where in the bathroom the tracts were left was "Eh, not as soft as toilet paper, but nicely poetic..."

[Aldous]

If that works to convert people, I need to make some for Necromancy.
"His name is Cthulu. He Fhtagns. He doesn't care what you do. He doesn't judge you for who you are. All he does is Fhtagn. It doesn't matter whether you're gay, straight, an abortionist, a heathen, he will kill you in the end. After he's done Fhtagn-ing."
Fhtagn- translated as either "dream" or "sleep"

[South Texan]

Since this could quickly degrade into another bashing of religion thread, let me just add my two cents on this subject before it goes further.

Please remember that whoever leaves these tracts in bathrooms or on tables or benches is doing so in a spirit of trying to help others. They see others as needing the salvation they believe is given to them through their beliefs and want others to have that same salvation. How is that offensive? They may be going about their task in a manner that has little to no effect, but they have good intentions and are not forcing anyone to read the tracts. There is no need to get nasty or insulting toward these people or their beliefs.

If your business does not want such things left on its property, simply toss them in the trash or a recycling bin and be done with it. If any of the persons who leave them gets upset and confronts you, simply state that such things may not be left on tables, toilets etc. Then please be consistent by not allowing other groups to leave their information at your business.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I did have to giggle at the line "Cartoon Tracts make Witnessing Easy!"

Is it supposed to be "easy"?

I suppose that, technically, leaving tracts lying around public spaces could be considered littering...

-ams- <who is not religious and if she was would not be the type to go around trying to recruit other people>