RE: Forced to see a Minister.... UGHHH
January 16, 2014 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2014 at 3:56 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(January 16, 2014 at 3:37 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Suck your mark in first. Stick with the love and heaven and good morals and fabulous miracles. It's just stupid to bring up hell if you haven't convinced them of the other stuff first. Don't tell them about the horrendous torture in store for them if they try to leave the Family...er, backslide from adoring and worshiping Jesus, until it's too late for them to back out. It's just common sense.
This won't work. For one, love and good morals can and do happen without Christianity, oftentimes despite Christianity. Second, trying to "suck [one's] mark" in by mentioning heaven and fabulous miracles will often do more harm than good to your agenda with an atheist. All that does is end any rational debate.
Also, you make a pretty raunchy assumption that the starting point for anyone's spiritual journey is a wonderful relationship with Jesus. It's not.
