(February 10, 2015 at 8:27 am)whateverist Wrote: Warning. I'm just fucking with you.
Perhaps you could do a Steve Martin like overboard enthusiasm for god and all things xtian. Babble in tongues. Yell out "thank you Jesus" in church. Spend hours chanting prayers and pouring over the bible at home. Get in touch with your inner lunatic. Maybe they'll try to get you to back off, do a little less church?
Reminds me of a grad student at my college who invited me to church because she was 'worried for my salvation.' As we were singing and clapping along to the Baptist hymnals, she turned to me and whispered if I knew what the words meant. I said yes, I was used to singing in a UU choir where all the symbols were translated into secular terms. So Lord of All meant Source of All or LAW for all. And Jesus meant JUSTICE. etc etc.
So we kept singing and clapping, then she suddenly turned to me, wide eyed with joy; "You're right! Jesus does mean Justice!"
Like duh. What do you think it means for everyone to rejoice that Jesus is going to return. It means we will finally see Justice for all the wrongs the whole world has ever asked to be righted.
It makes ME wonder if Christians even know what they are saying! I think the ones who do, become very humbled and are too busy caring for the oppressed to go around preaching on high horses about it.
(This also worked to stop someone from harassing a gay atheist heading a protest on National Prayer Day outside city hall. The person keep taunting him: You need Jesus! And the head of the group kept turning and rebutting: No I don't. back and forth: You need Jesus! No I don't, etc. annoying the heck out of everyone within earshot. Finally I said to him: Do you believe in Justice. And without hesitation of course he said Yes. So I said that's the same thing. We all want Justice. And they shut up.)
