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The Prodigal Son
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RE: The Prodigal Son
(June 8, 2016 at 4:04 pm)robvalue Wrote: Evangelising has a track record of zero percent success anyway, at least since I've been here. If anything, it has cemented people's scepticism when coming out of religion when picked at by vultures.

I don't consider this thread evangelising. I don't really know what the point of it is, but I'm happy to answer honest and unloaded questions. I think Ignorant is wise enough not to expect people to convert on the basis of things like this. I'm not constantly waiting for the "gotcha" card with him, like I am with most theists I've tried to debate here.

I also can't accurately predict what he's going to say, which is a nice change too.

No it does have an affect, it is just that most of the time the people you plant the seed of doubt in don't change suddenly, many times it takes years. The guy that got me to start thinking will never know where I ended up. He didn't make me a sudden atheist. All he did was ask me "What if Jesus was just a man". Took me almost a decade from that point to finally call myself an atheist.

Lets not forget many of us here were once believers. It took someone to question us. So it isn't that debate does not work, it is simply most of the time you wont see whom you have affected because by the time they finally figure it out they may have long since moved on.

I don't call it "evangelizing", yea I am trying to convince. "evangelizing" makes it sound like a sales pitch. If you know you are right, why wouldn't you want to help other people get to those facts too?

But no, I don't think we need to "evangelize" like JWs nor should we.
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The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 4:29 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 4:33 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Pat Mustard - June 8, 2016 at 4:41 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by paulpablo - June 8, 2016 at 8:29 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 8, 2016 at 8:38 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 4:33 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Homeless Nutter - June 8, 2016 at 4:46 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Alex K - June 8, 2016 at 4:48 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:21 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 1:45 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:53 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 2:14 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 2:32 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 2:44 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 2:56 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 3:11 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 3:14 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 2:30 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Minimalist - June 8, 2016 at 2:42 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Pat Mustard - June 8, 2016 at 6:40 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 8:13 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Rhondazvous - June 11, 2016 at 9:43 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by paulpablo - June 12, 2016 at 3:10 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 12, 2016 at 7:36 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by paulpablo - June 12, 2016 at 9:39 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 5:21 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by SofaKingHigh - June 8, 2016 at 5:32 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 5:42 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 8, 2016 at 5:50 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 6:01 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:29 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Little lunch - June 8, 2016 at 6:21 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Alex K - June 8, 2016 at 6:28 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Pat Mustard - June 8, 2016 at 6:35 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Chad32 - June 8, 2016 at 7:32 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by I_am_not_mafia - June 8, 2016 at 10:14 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:27 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Adam Blackstar - June 8, 2016 at 10:49 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 11:16 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:25 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Chad32 - June 8, 2016 at 11:34 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 1:30 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 2:02 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 2:34 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 2:36 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 2:58 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 3:11 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 8, 2016 at 3:26 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Minimalist - June 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Ignorant - June 8, 2016 at 1:54 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 2:26 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by ApeNotKillApe - June 8, 2016 at 2:33 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 2:36 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Minimalist - June 8, 2016 at 3:13 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Chad32 - June 8, 2016 at 3:19 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Minimalist - June 8, 2016 at 3:15 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 3:22 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 8, 2016 at 3:38 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Adam Blackstar - June 8, 2016 at 8:33 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Catholic_Lady - June 8, 2016 at 10:00 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Homeless Nutter - June 8, 2016 at 8:57 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Alex K - June 8, 2016 at 3:34 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 4:06 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 4:04 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 8, 2016 at 5:58 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Angrboda - June 8, 2016 at 4:04 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 4:07 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Alex K - June 8, 2016 at 4:09 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 8, 2016 at 6:44 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Homeless Nutter - June 8, 2016 at 8:11 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 9:39 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 10:12 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Adam Blackstar - June 8, 2016 at 10:41 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by madog - June 8, 2016 at 10:47 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 8, 2016 at 10:48 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by I_am_not_mafia - June 12, 2016 at 4:25 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by lisah - June 11, 2016 at 8:48 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 11, 2016 at 3:00 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by lisah - June 12, 2016 at 10:52 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 11, 2016 at 7:04 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 11, 2016 at 7:10 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Chad32 - June 11, 2016 at 7:55 pm
RE: The Prodigal Son - by robvalue - June 12, 2016 at 2:45 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Thumpalumpacus - June 12, 2016 at 4:57 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Brian37 - June 12, 2016 at 7:39 am
RE: The Prodigal Son - by Alex K - June 12, 2016 at 4:02 pm

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