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A Simple Way to Shut Up a Street Preacher
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 (November 16, 2010 at 3:20 pm)coffeeveritas Wrote: Plan E: Dress up like Jesus, stand behind him repeatedly rolling you eyes and shaking your head "no", occasionally exclaim, "Wrong!" Ah, combating authority with that same authority. So much yes. ![[Image: 5182069751_4db755c50a.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=farm2.static.flickr.com%2F1004%2F5182069751_4db755c50a.jpg)
"Faith is about taking a comforting, childlike view of a disturbing and complicated world." ~ Edward Current
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When I was in college back in the seventies, we had a huge winter storm shut down campus for a week. We had 27" of snow on the ground, and even the campus police couldn't get out to patrol. So classes were cancelled, and everyone was out building snowmen and tubing. A friend of mine and I decided to walk accross campus to the grocery store before all the shelves were empty. When we reached the student center, there was a preacher in the square spouting fire and brimstone, surrouded by a lot of students, most of whom were apparently from the football team. As we passed by, we realised that these guys all had snowballs in their hands held behind their backs. I looked at my friend and said "maybe we should get out of here". So we started running. I decided to stop and look back, and the sky was full of snowballs. I never saw that preacher there again. lol True story.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens "I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations". - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! " - Dr. Donald Prothero 
So for him hell froze over.....
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens "I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations". - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) "In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! " - Dr. Donald Prothero  RE: A Simple Way to Shut Up a Street Preacher
November 16, 2010 at 9:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2010 at 9:49 pm by Ashendant.)
 (November 3, 2010 at 12:30 pm)theophilus Wrote:(November 2, 2010 at 2:32 pm)Jonah Wrote: Considering all of the proselytising that has been going in my school due to the elections (as well as unpleasant conversations with preachers/street evangelists in the past), I thought I'd make a simple guide as to disarming these loud-mouthed know-it-alls using one simple Bible verse.Have you ever actually used this method? If you have I would be interested in hearing how the preacher responded. I don't see how it would stop anyone from preaching. For once I agree with you Theo. This would be far more effective.  (November 2, 2010 at 2:32 pm)Jonah Wrote: 1. Ask the Christian for his/her Bible.  Huh? How is Matthew 6:5 supposed to shut him up...?
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. (Oscar Wilde)  (November 17, 2010 at 6:59 am)Arcanus Wrote: Good point! Surely the preacher would point out the 'obvious'; That he is preaching, not praying. I understand these to be two completely seperate acts? One private, One Public. Cheers Sam
"We need not suppose more things to exist than are absolutely neccesary." William of Occam
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure: Act 1, Scene 4)  
(November 17, 2010 at 11:13 am)Sam Wrote: Good point! Surely the preacher would point out the 'obvious'—that he is preaching, not praying. I understand these to be two completely separate acts? One private, one public. Yep, that was the point I was going to get at. Glad you caught it. Cheers.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. (Oscar Wilde) (November 17, 2010 at 11:13 am)Sam Wrote:(November 17, 2010 at 6:59 am)Arcanus Wrote: Indeed, to think of one when being told of the other requires a civilized sense of irony and embarrassment which would have prevented the preacher from taking up so reprobate a calling as street preaching in the first place. |
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