Very religious colleague

Yes this is where I lose a bit of sympathy. It seems a bit ridiculous as this could be so easily solved IMO.

Most places where I work he'd have been laughed at for saying all women should be looking for marriage then stay at home with the children .
He can believe anything he likes but he's not allowed to make others feel uncomfortable if they don't agree with him.
I would talk to your manager. Don't say your against his beliefs but do make it clear that it's making you and others uncomfortable. He's going to end up incredibly unpopular with no-one wanting to work with him if he carries on like this.

yes, putting the apple there before they had knowledge of good and evil does seem like stacking the decks against them.

It’s very sad.

I have Christian friends in the US who had to leave their churches recently due to feeling very uncomfortable about what the pastor was saying about people like Charlie Kirk (praising him, glossing over his hateful comments, positioning him as a martyr)

I looked up my childhood (UK) church on social media recently and was gutted to see they were now aligned with some “Christian” hate preachers from the U.S and the pastor of my childhood church is in support of Trump according to his Twitter.

US and UK churches often have informal partnerships and invite each other to speak at their churches and conferences etc. The UK is unfortunately much more influenced by the US than the other way around - and that is a general statement not just in regards to churches. Sometimes that’s a good thing of course as the U.S. isn’t all bad but in this case it’s not good.

No it wouldn't be islamophobic. I've worked with Muslims who I would happily discuss their beliefs/traditions etc out of curiosity and they were happy to answer questions when I asked. There is a way to be polite about things, I've asked them about their Eid plans, they've asked me about Christmas etc

But if they started to push their beliefs down my throat and say I should be at home tending to a husband not working in the office I would be telling them to fuck off and keep their beliefs to themselves. I'm an atheist, I don't care if someone is Christian, Jewish or Muslim. But if they use their beliefs as a stick to hit me with every time I do something they think their faith disagrees with, then I would push back. It is a workplace not somewhere for them to preach.

She sounds lovely.

But then a loving god wouldn't booby-trap a garden they had made you.

I thought Jehovah's too. Really obnoxious to proselytise at work though. Someone needs to have a word.

She is so down to Earth. Never shoves scripture down your throat and can 'read the room' as to if a 'God opinion' is needed or wanted.
This man sounds like somebody who has done an online course in Christianity and is now an 'expert'.

My mum was a very keen member of The Church of Scotland, and my stepdad was a Church Elder there. They would've liked me to follow them, but they didn't push it. I wish more people were like that.

So be brave and turn the radio off. Which is what I'd do if I was a manager in this situation.
Or just complain officially and get someone else to deal with it.

This. It's a form of harassment. The fact that he thinks he is untouchable makes it 100 times worse!

Go through the proper channels. It's totally unacceptable.

In most offices I have worked in there has been a vote on what people listen to and the majority rules. In one we had people pick 10 songs each.

what you are all doing is enabling him. Let him sit and talk over it, and let his manager deal with the lack of work he is doing. If he pipes up then tell him that is his opinion and you dont agree with it. He gives incel vibes. Go the HR, let them deal with him

YANBU.

Its likely because you're a women and the idea of you expressing any kind of opposing view/daring to contradict him is completely wrong. In his world women are there to serve his needs/do what he wants because he's a man so in charge and what he says goes i.e. the music, snacks, the activities you undertake in your private time. He has a career but you gals are just earning some pocket money waiting to be chosen by a man. That sounds like what's going on in his world, good luck influencing that!

Bet hed be straight to the manager if there were another outspoken member of another religion who was helpfully informing him that he was a sinner for going to church/not going to x other faith building/not doing religion right. But it's ok just saying what I believe....

Why not express it to him?

Him: Women should prioritize marriage over work.
You: You are not superior to me because of your genitalia. You are being offensive to all the women in this office. I think your religious beliefs are wrong and damaging to society. Please keep them to yourself.

I'm a Christian and might well agree with him on this stuff but he's going about this in an unhelpful way. Jesus didn't behave in this aggressive way with ordinary people.

You all sound a bit wet. 39 people daren’t say anything, really?

This is a picture of part of my kindle homepage. If this kind of patriarchal, prosperity gospel, Billy Franklin fostered, women-squashing expression of religion is coming this way and attracting young men (because it appears to offer a backlash to feminism of the last 75 years and put them back on top) then we should be concerned and engaged:

religious schools produce people exactly like this. Their beliefs become so normalised at home and at school that they have absolutely not idea how weird they come across in society. To them, the entire world is their enemy and the only goal is to convert non believers into thinking the same way they do, not realising they were effectively brainwashed from birth by their family and the school they chose to send them to.

You assume everyone outside religious schools lives in some sort of vacuum where there are no beliefs, norms or cultural expectations. We all have beliefs shaped by the society we grow up in. Things you condemn as weird are normal in other societies or periods of history. Not following a religion does not mean you have no beliefs, it means you have different beliefs and in twenty years time some of those beliefs might well be considered weird.

He sounds insufferable. I couldnt work with him and would be making a complaint.
I don't care what people beleive but only if they don't try and force others to listen or adhere to their rhetoric.
Complaint and get him out.

My neice's catholic school seems to be putting her and her friends off religion for life!

Tell me that you didn't go to a religious school without saying you didn't go to a religious school 🙄

This. I went to a High Church C of E school. I don't think that people were violently "put off" but I am sure we didn't all come out indoctrinated.....not sure that any of the folk I was at school with did.
OP take this through your nanager or HR. While this bloke is hanging his behaviour on religion its not actually about that, its about his behaviour at work. Whatever he is ranting about its not acceptable.

Just so you know, Jews don't encourage others to convert to Judaism. It's not part of our remit.

It is possible, but difficult, to convert to Judaism.