So I work at a truck wash in a small town in Missouri. All of my coworkers are openly Christian so that led me to kinda internalize my religion from them in fear of being ostracized or worse fired.
Well I had scheduled a tattoo appointment to get some runes on my arm from my religion (which is literally a protection formula of runes) with a tattoo artist well known in town. My supervisor (who’s probably the most religious openly among my coworkers) is friends with the artist.
Apparently me telling the artist that I work at the truck wash in town was a bad idea because he told my supervisor what I was getting. Come today my supervisor approaches me and says he heard that I was getting a tattoo and that he didn’t like what I was getting. So I told him that it’s not really his business in the most respectful way I could. He proceeded to tell me that he’s surprised I was hired because normally they don’t hire “evil” people. I was speechless honestly, I’m already anti social and now I’m being told I’m evil so I kinda just sit there. He then goes on to tell me that I’m going to hell and that those symbols make me “a satan worshipper”.
After that I just said sorry and then went on my lunch.
My biggest fear now is them now finding every reason to make me look bad in the workplace so they can fire me or worse make the environment and the work I do super hard or something of that sort to try and force me to quit.
I need advice.
TLDR:Supervisor found out about a religious tattoo I’m getting and called me an evil satan worshipper. I’m worried about getting fired for my religious views.