Still struggling.

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Gdog, I'm really sorry you have to cope with that kind of fear and anxiety in your own home. Shit.

I agree. This is totally fucked up.

I'm way beyond thinking they have our friend's best interests at heart. They just can't cope with him not buying their bullshit, and find it so uncomfortable they can't stop preaching at him. They're looking for vadilation and are projecting their insecurities. And they're thinking of their accountability to their death cult's imaginary leaders.

Notice how they are using emotional manipulation rather than reasoned arguments and evidence. That's what theists resort to when they've run out of the former, and sometimes they skip straight to it.

We have theists who have been on this forum for years and are still peddling this "atheists know God exists really" bullshit. It is an explicit display of a totally closed mind that can't even consider someone else may not share their beliefs.

One more thing: phrases like "you don't want there to be consequences" betray a mind overcome with fantasy. They think what you believe affects reality. If you believe in an afterlife, and God, then they are real. If you don't, then they disappear, from your point of view. It also shows how vulnerable they think their God is, that he needs such protecting from an enquiring mind.