Title: You're going to Hell!
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 25, 2008, 03:44:05 AM
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 25, 2008, 03:44:05 AM
Do you get that reaction from a lot of Christians? It's usually one the first things they manage to utter when I tell them I am an Atheist.
I was in a truck stop the other day and a church group was stopped there as well. Their van had a flat tire, so while waiting for it to be fixed they thought they had found the perfect opportunity to do God's work and began milling around witnessing (harassing :hmm:
Weirdos.
I was in a truck stop the other day and a church group was stopped there as well. Their van had a flat tire, so while waiting for it to be fixed they thought they had found the perfect opportunity to do God's work and began milling around witnessing (harassing :hmm:
Weirdos.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: afreethinker30 on June 25, 2008, 04:12:36 AM
Post by: afreethinker30 on June 25, 2008, 04:12:36 AM
Quote from: "EvolutionCalling"Do you get that reaction from a lot of Christians? It's usually one the first things they manage to utter when I tell them I am an Atheist.
I was in a truck stop the other day and a church group was stopped there as well. Their van had a flat tire, so while waiting for it to be fixed they thought they had found the perfect opportunity to do God's work and began milling around witnessing (harassing :hmm:
Weirdos.
Pretty common here to.Them crazy people.Haha wish I could have seen their faces when you made the dino comment.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: karadan on June 25, 2008, 10:38:56 AM
Post by: karadan on June 25, 2008, 10:38:56 AM
Haha!
I wish i had the oppertunity to say something like that to a christian nutter. Given the opportunity, i'd actually probably bail out politely - such is my silly British need to not embarrass/cause a scene...
I wish i had the oppertunity to say something like that to a christian nutter. Given the opportunity, i'd actually probably bail out politely - such is my silly British need to not embarrass/cause a scene...
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: weedoch on June 25, 2008, 11:58:19 AM
Post by: weedoch on June 25, 2008, 11:58:19 AM
Quote from: "karadan"I wish i had the oppertunity to say something like that to a christian nutter. Given the opportunity, i'd actually probably bail out politely - such is my silly British need to not embarrass/cause a scene...
What's with us Brits and not causing a scene? I've decided that instead of feeling like I'm a chicken I shall instead think of myself as simply modelling good behaviour! I did once make a Jehovah's Witness cry though - she was sad that I didn't care enough about my childrens' souls to prepare them for the coming apocalypse. Odd.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: MariaEvri on June 25, 2008, 01:22:21 PM
Post by: MariaEvri on June 25, 2008, 01:22:21 PM
fortunately I dont have that kind of an experience. I only told one of my freinds that I'm an atheist, and although she didnt like it, she accepted it.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: susangail on June 25, 2008, 07:22:53 PM
Post by: susangail on June 25, 2008, 07:22:53 PM
I've never had this happen to me personally (I've only got one foot out of the closet) but I've heard stories.
And heaven as an incentive? Worship a god I don't believe in for all eternity.... nope, not buying it.
Quote from: "EvolutionCalling"Now, if I don't believe in God I'd say it's a pretty safe bet I don't believe in Hell. So why do they say that like it's going to shock me into converting from my heathen ways?I've always wondered why they think that will convert an atheist. Even when I was a Christian it didn't make sense.
Weirdos.
And heaven as an incentive? Worship a god I don't believe in for all eternity.... nope, not buying it.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: crocofish on June 25, 2008, 09:02:22 PM
Post by: crocofish on June 25, 2008, 09:02:22 PM
One of my dad's sisters is Southern Baptist, and she would tell my mom that she was going to Hell for not going to church. She wouldn't say it in an aggressive way like some religious extremists, but there was that constant lecturing. When I was a kid, I didn't understand why my mom hated going to family gatherings, but later I found out it was because of the evangelizing.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 25, 2008, 09:13:50 PM
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 25, 2008, 09:13:50 PM
One of my "favorite" tactics is the use of billboards and signs. There is one on the Northbound side of I-65 in Alabama (just South of Birmingham) that says, "GO TO CHURCH OR THE DEVIL WITH GET YOU!" They even added a little red goat/man looking dude with a pitch fork. I giggle a little every time I pass it. 
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Asmodean on June 25, 2008, 10:09:17 PM
Post by: Asmodean on June 25, 2008, 10:09:17 PM
Bleh... There will always be theists out there who will try to convert us. And we can feed them our arguments as they try to feed us their drivel and laugh at them knowing that all their hard work will be for nothing. :D
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Salladin on June 26, 2008, 06:00:18 AM
Post by: Salladin on June 26, 2008, 06:00:18 AM
Yea, I've got that response from my mom. Wasn't that much fun.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: karadan on June 26, 2008, 03:55:18 PM
Post by: karadan on June 26, 2008, 03:55:18 PM
Quote from: "Salladin"Yea, I've got that response from my mom. Wasn't that much fun.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: jcm on June 26, 2008, 07:26:28 PM
Post by: jcm on June 26, 2008, 07:26:28 PM
Quote from: "Asmodean""ONE daY, JOO wiLL FEEl JEEzus!!"
that is some serious fire in the belly! I wish I could feel that way all the time, I really do.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Loffler on June 28, 2008, 10:36:56 PM
Post by: Loffler on June 28, 2008, 10:36:56 PM
Where do you people meet these Christians? I never get preached or witnessed to anymore.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: SunKissed on June 28, 2008, 10:57:24 PM
Post by: SunKissed on June 28, 2008, 10:57:24 PM
lol I got that even while I was pretending/forcing myself to be Christian. Every time I said "I believe in God, but I'm not sure about Jesus and the Bible" someone assured me that I'm going to hell, and the only way out is if I believe in Jesus.
You'd think believing in God and being a good person is enough
You'd think believing in God and being a good person is enough
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 29, 2008, 02:31:07 AM
Post by: EvolutionCalling on June 29, 2008, 02:31:07 AM
Quote from: "Loffler"Where do you people meet these Christians? I never get preached or witnessed to anymore.
I get around. I also spend a lot of time in bible belt areas, so it happens.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: susangail on June 29, 2008, 04:37:47 AM
Post by: susangail on June 29, 2008, 04:37:47 AM
Quote from: "SunKissed"lol I got that even while I was pretending/forcing myself to be Christian. Every time I said "I believe in God, but I'm not sure about Jesus and the Bible" someone assured me that I'm going to hell, and the only way out is if I believe in Jesus.Yeah you'd think, but even accepting Jesus isn't good enough. Nothing is. Ha tell them that last line and see what they say... "There are no good people! Only God is good! Be cleansed with Jesus' blood!!"
You'd think believing in God and being a good person is enough
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Steve Reason on June 29, 2008, 04:23:51 PM
Post by: Steve Reason on June 29, 2008, 04:23:51 PM
Quote from: "EvolutionCalling"Do you get that reaction from a lot of Christians? It's usually one the first things they manage to utter when I tell them I am an Atheist.
I was in a truck stop the other day and a church group was stopped there as well. Their van had a flat tire, so while waiting for it to be fixed they thought they had found the perfect opportunity to do God's work and began milling around witnessing (harassing :hmm:
Weirdos.
You're my new hero.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Steve Reason on June 29, 2008, 04:36:29 PM
Post by: Steve Reason on June 29, 2008, 04:36:29 PM
I don't run into them much anymore here in Indy for some reason. Just luck I guess. I usually would talk with them just for sport, but now I think I'd just give them a wave of my hand and tell them to keep walking--and a few other choice words. It's poison, plain and simple, and I don't think I care to hear one more fucking word of it from them--especially after the sermon that my uncle's preacher gave at his funeral. You don't know how hard it was to hold my tongue, and the whole thing left me even less amiable toward religious gobbledygook.
Title: Re: You're going to Hell!
Post by: Chimera on June 29, 2008, 09:28:35 PM
Post by: Chimera on June 29, 2008, 09:28:35 PM
I have a friend online who sometimes tries to witness to me with "scientific" proofs of God's existence (all of which are mentioned, and dispelled, in Dawkins' The God Delusion). Next time she tries it, I'll remember this thread, lol.
And to the person who mentioned Occam's Razor (which I love to death):
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And to the person who mentioned Occam's Razor (which I love to death):
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