I live in Tulsa and work at a small college there.  Not all of us are like
what you ran into and experienced.  Yes there is a lot of so called
religion here.  But please don't bad mouth a whole town because of one bad
apple.  We're not all rotten you know.  I do not believe in any organized
religion, but I don't think that makes me a bad person.  I've lived in
Tulsa for 20 some years(before that I lived in many different states all
over the US)  If I run into any who tries to push there religious views on
me (this can happen any where), I tell I am a Druid and I worship trees.
This usually shuts them up.  Most of them aren't sure what a Druid is. They
usually don't bring the subject up agin.  I am sorry that you had a bad
time here.  But please don't give the impression that all of Oklahoma is
this way.

A Happy tranplanted Tulsan,  Erin


>In College, in a small school in Tulsa, OK. They all wanted to convert me...
>Born again Christians were everywhere.  Anyway, my first room mate, a blind
>and a Born-Again actually told me
>that because I was Jewish, I was damned to hell.  After I moved to a
>different dorn later that week, then transferred to a West Coast School the
>following year, I found out she'd "gotten" pregnant.  I'm sure it wasn't
>immaculate conception..... Oh, there was a lot of boozing and sex at that
>school--I later found out from a friend of my mother's (a sex therapist,
>hehe!) they Tulsa and OKC, OK, at the time, had one of the highest rates of
>herpes in the nation.  Anyway, I saw a lot of religious hypocrisy and it
>skewed my views.
>