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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 4:47 am
Tell them that threatening me with hell is like threatening me with narnia, the puzzled look on their face as they try to work out what I mean is great
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 6:59 am
(July 25, 2015 at 4:47 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Tell them that threatening me with hell is like threatening me with narnia, the puzzled look on their face as they try to work out what I mean is great
Brilliant !! I'm always looking for pithy putdowns and this is the best I've seen in a while. Do you mind if I use it ?
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 7:51 am
(July 25, 2015 at 6:59 am)pgrimes15 Wrote: (July 25, 2015 at 4:47 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Tell them that threatening me with hell is like threatening me with narnia, the puzzled look on their face as they try to work out what I mean is great
Brilliant !! I'm always looking for pithy putdowns and this is the best I've seen in a while. Do you mind if I use it ?
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Help yourself! (also ask them which hell they mean)
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 9:00 am
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Aren't you a little old for fairy stories?
I take it you've got no evidence or arguments if you're having to use threats?
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 3:27 pm
I'm going to hell?
Well duh! I've made the reservation like ages ago.
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Ask them if they have a nightlight so that the boogyman can't sneak up on them while they sleep.
Really, you should relentlessly ridicule them for their silly beliefs. Since there is no such place as hell, you are not afraid of it. Just like you are not afraid that Zeus is going to be pissed off at you for not worshiping him. Ask them if they are afraid of Zeus, and if not, ask them to explain why it is that they are not. You then repeat that back to them about their hell nonsense.
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 4:17 pm
Well Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox will be in hell whereas pedophile priests will be in Heaven?
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(July 25, 2015 at 3:32 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Since there is no such place as hell, you are not afraid of it.
That should be the bottom line. The threat has no power whatsoever. If you do feel threatened, you are not all the way to atheism and need some further convincing.
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RE: How do you deal with religious folks who use hell to convert you?(Nevermind)
July 25, 2015 at 5:34 pm
If hell doesn't have religious people there, hell is heaven.
Or just mindblowing them with question like "How do you know you are in 'the right' religion order to get to the heaven since different religions believe they're the ones getting saved instead of some other religion?"
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