RE: Forced to see a Minister.... UGHHH
January 16, 2014 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2014 at 5:31 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 15, 2014 at 10:31 pm)Wunsbee Wrote: So I went, I basically wanted to refuse to go but my mother was getting worse and worse and I just agreed. He asked me lots of questions, I answered each one throughly. Explaining why what he was saying and believes is nonsense to me, without being rude. Got lots of things like "be open minded!" "You're on a journey!" "I've had doubts too!" etc. He did manage to shake up my emotions a tad but I hid it, mostly because it made ME look like the bad guy. I was clear about my position and I ended up shaking HIM! He was teary eyed and closed to tears by the time we finished.. hahaha
Very nicely done
Next time a Christian gives you that "[you've got to] be open minded!" line, ask him/her how open minded they are about: Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism, etc, etc, being true?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
