(October 28, 2012 at 10:45 am)Tnmusicman Wrote: I wish I could give you double kudos for that! I've gotten a few of those hey-you-should-stop-praying-in-public-so-you-don't-embarrass-yourself comments. In fact, the one time an atheist tried to use Pascals Wager on me was concerning prayer in public. He was talking about Mat.6:5 and I explained he was taking the verse out of context. After a few "I can't believe me,an atheist, has to explain this to you" comments he actually tried telling me "maybe, just maybe to be sure we aren't in conflict with Jesus' teaching we should only pray in private".
My response: "maybe, just maybe to be sure we aren't going to hell we should accept Jesus as Lord and Savior". Obviously, this would be a silly reason to "accept" Jesus as Lord. His next few comments were even more rage filled. He admitted that seeing prayer in public "bothers him". Uh huh. I told him I would continue praying whenever and wherever I felt the need.
To illicit this response from a passer by you must have been really laying it on thick.
Were you shouting? I bet you were shouting.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
