(August 2, 2013 at 6:10 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: Today I was talking with a homeless man in my neighborhood. I’ve known this man for a few months, and on occasion I have given him food (never cash). I have sat with him on several occasions to keep him company and to listen to him tell his life story. This guy makes no effort to hide his christian association, and in fact he often uses it to pull on the heartstrings of other gullible people (christians), and gets them to give him cash or anything else he can swindle from them. I notice that the “christians” never sit and talk with him, hmmmmm?
Today he asked me for food after telling me that I was hell bound for being born a sinner, and for turning my back on Jesus (I am atheist). I told him “No problem, I‘ll feed you”, and I invited him over for a steak and lobster dinner which I promised I would freely give to him. I told him I had a room in my home prepared for him, and that he could feast, and live in comfort and luxury for all of his days. He was very excited!
I told him to come by around 6:00PM and to be prepared to worship me if he expected to get what I had promised him. He seemed perplexed. He then asked, “Why would you withhold what you’ve promised me unless I agree with your ideas, and do as you say?” I responded, “Because you arrive at my door defiled and deserving death”. He said I was being violent toward him because of my gross mischaracterization of him, and he demanded to know what gave me the right to ask him to perform as I dictated, and to judge him as worthy of death. He then cursed me out for dangling a proverbial carrot in front of his face (my promise of paradise), and he then proceeded to list my many sins. I guess you could say that he didn’t like my theology.
How ironic that he stumbled away unaware of what had just happened to him, and how sad that I will now have to eat another lobster tail with my second fillet. Tisk, tisk.
Seems to me all you did was turn him into a 'freedomfromfallatheist'.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
