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How to convert an atheist

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How to convert an atheist
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 8:48 am
That should be the forum guide for Christians
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 9:21 am
Yeah, they taught me that shit in bible school. While teaching me not to question the bible. Research led to one thing, and the very arguments I was making to the atheists proved to be full of bullshit. I could never PROVE things that book was saying, only things that proved it was all a lie.
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#13
RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 11:22 am (This post was last modified: February 21, 2014 at 11:28 am by Angrboda.)


"Just don't give in. After their arguments about any advantages of being atheist, say that their arguments are relatively good points, but not enough to convert you to atheism. "

Yeah, that's an open, honest approach to dialog. "No matter what happens, don't listen to them!"

Typically Christian: Here's what I want, now how do I get what I want regardless of what's true?
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 11:28 am
So we could improve it Big Grin
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 12:22 pm
Yeah, it's not perfect, just an improvement over what we usually get. Present company excepted.
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 12:33 pm
(February 21, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Present company excepted.

Haha Big Grin
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Method 1, steps 5-7 seems more likely to result in the Christian abandoning his beliefs. :p That's kind of how it worked for me, anyway.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 1:19 pm
(February 21, 2014 at 1:18 pm)Tonus Wrote: Method 1, steps 5-7 seems more likely to result in the Christian abandoning his beliefs. :p That's kind of how it worked for me, anyway.

Well there you go! Can't be bad! Big Grin
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 1:40 pm
I think I get step 4...

They're conflating the definitions of 'poetic' and 'WRONG!'
So whenever you find the bible is wrong, what it said was actually poetry.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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RE: How to convert an atheist
February 21, 2014 at 1:43 pm
Quote:Verify that the Bible is scientifically correct every time it mentions science, though not a science text.

The bible is scientifically correct every time it mentions science?

So, never.
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