(February 12, 2016 at 4:43 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:Quote:I did give you the link, EP.I know you did. I'm trusting your own interpretation of the article, though, if I can count your OP as a whole as such.
Quote: Instead of questioning my motives and intelligence, you could take a look yourself.
See above.
Quote:That is, if you find such things vaguely interesting. I could be wrong, but I thought the article was legit. I also thought that all the warnings hidden in it, (I quoted a few), were interesting, and that someone here might like to see it. That's why I posted it. Sure, it could be a parody. I don't think so, however.(Emphasis mine.)
I see no reason to think it's not. I'm just seriously considering the possibility than an actual atheist(this is a perfect instance where the word antitheist would be just right to use) wrote the article - that doesn't speak for its legitimacy, merely for the author's intelligence(which would make it even more legitimate, if anything). I can't see a religious person with dubious reasons(trying to convert someone) inadvertently making so much sense on the topic.
Perhaps, then, it was unwise of me to post only the excerpts from the article that I found interesting. Most of it focused on how to choose the right setting, how to gain the atheist's trust, how to listen without being argumentative, how to invite the atheist to your church, etc. These paragraphs I did not include, but do not seem to be the sort of thing an atheist would use . . . there was too much of it, it was too saccharine.
I did not want to only post the link, this would guide some of our friends here to have to wade through all that crap . . .
If anyone has an opinion on how the OP should have been presented, I would be interested in suggestions.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein