I’m a pretty ordinary, mainstream, church-going Catholic. I don’t preach, I don’t proselytize, I don’t really care all that much about what you or anyone else (except maybe my children) believes or doesn’t believe.
But I’ve been cornered by militant atheists, who can be, believe me, just as obnoxious as the Christians described in the OP.
And we get the Tony Alamo people working the NYC subways once in a while. They’re pretty bad. Actually, they’re kind of fun to engage, given that they have a serious bee in their bonnets about the Catholic Church.
Let’s hope you’re not in Singapore either. Stunts/comments like that can get you arrested there.
Again, where did I ever say you were in Thailand, you simpleton?
Hah!
I would not be surprised if he has family members who deny their relationship. “That drunk guy? Nope, he’s not my uncle. No relationship whatsoever. We’re not even related through Adam.”
My mother was pleased as punch when I went out and got my first job (paper boy, as it was called at the time) when I was ten years old. His mom? Poor lass is likely hoping he’ll just go out and not come back.
Years ago, when my best friend and I got off the train in Ebina, Japan, a young Japanese man came up to us and said to us, “I am Christian. Can I pray for you?” So, I told him, “Sure. Go for it. We’re Christians, too.” When he blocked our way, I then told him, “Look, friend; you can pray for us over there. Get out of our way.” I wonder if that response changed his planned prayer.
You see, those folks completely misunderstand the bit about not hiding their light under a bushel. To me that means you should let the way you live your life show the goodness of your beliefs. No need to pester folks about it.
It’s Trump-tastic! Seriously, that’s exactly the way Trump operates.
“But I’ve been cornered by militant atheists, who can be, believe me, just as obnoxious as the Christians described in the OP.”
Where do you live that this is happening? I know YouTube atheists can be very aggressive, but I’ve never heard of this offline.
As an atheist who sang in various church choirs for years (b/c choral music awesome and what the rest of the congregation believes or doesn’t believe about deities is no skin off my butt), I’ve seen it happen first-hand, and more than once.
Example: leaving a Saturday-night party with the comment that I need to be up early for church the next morning, and getting an impertinent question along the lines of “Do you really believe there exists some kind of sky fairy who cares which building you sit in on a Sunday morning?”
(No, but you can bet your ass my choirmaster cares, and he definitely exists.) “Sorry, I don’t discuss my personal religious beliefs.” (Partly because I’m not about to give a rude smug asshole like you any validation for your smug rudeness by identifying myself as a member of your “team”.)
“You won’t discuss them because you know they’d be torn to pieces in rational argument!”
“Sorry, I don’t discuss my personal religious beliefs.” (Bye, asshole.)
*Originally Posted by atimnie
More pathetic than sad, almost funny, but absolutely contemptible. Asshole had to drag his shit into the games forum. Got reported immediately. Waiting for her/him/it to do it again so it gets its ass banned… again.
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*"Did they wear uniforms? Were they carrying weapons? Did they refer to each other by rank?
Or is this the weakest attempt at “They do it tooo!!” this board has seen in years?
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Let’s give him the benefit of a doubt (what a strange phrase). Just because we’ve never heard of it happening doesn’t mean it didn’t. But if it did happen, that’s still a very small number compared to all the religious zealots going door to door, preaching on street corners and college campuses (they are seriously losing the battle there).
I have spoken to aggressive atheists who are openly upset that an adult is naive enough to believe in “fairy tales” (you see that on this board all the time), or that will challenge you to prove your faith is “wrong” (less frequent on these boards).
But what you don’t see are atheists walking up to strangers on the street to convert them to their belief system (or lack of one, that’s another debate). Nobody but evangelical Christians do that.
That’s a huge difference. Having an opposing opinion you’re passionate about is normal. You can argue about sports teams or politics or hot dog toppings (that last one can lead to bloodshed) but nobody is accosting strangers on the street about them. (Petition signature gatherers come close I guess but they are up front about what they want from you and a “no thanks” will almost always work.)
On the one hand I don’t care where the silly bigoted troll lives, but on the other hand this subject seems to annoy him, so as far as I’m concerned have at it.
On the subject of the thread, I live in an area that is oversaturated with mormons, which seems to put a damper on other sorts of proselytizing. And at some point I convinced my local branch that I was a lost cause, so peaceful bliss!
Were I accosted in a parking lot, I would of course answer any questions honestly. Including telling them I think they’re demon worshipers if they’re one of the christian/jewish/muslim types. And no, I wouldn’t be worried about reprisals or anything, because all the parking lots around here are in america.
I recently got in my car to see that someone had placed a rainbow-colored tract with the word “PRIDE” on it under my windshield wipers, and because it had rained in the meantime, it was stuck to the glass. Yeah, the JWs struck again.
A while back, a friend of mine was accosted by a JW as she was entering the library where a club we’re in meets, and this woman wouldn’t get out of her way! I asked if she told the librarian about it, because they are NOT supposed to do that on public property. She didn’t, although she said the woman did freak out a bit when my friend told her that she was a practicing Christian for many years but is now pagan, and no, she didn’t want to convert back. :smack:
