I actually thought of that after the fact, but with Moslem rather than Jehovah's Witness.
Isn't it obvious!? You see, Jesus didn't get tortured to death for our sins, on the contrary! You don't need to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you have to submit to the will of Allah. Mohammed, an illiterate merchant, was dictated the holy Qu'uran by the archangel Gabriel, went around having his sycophants killing people, and then ascended into heaven or some junk. How could you be so blind?
Yeah, it would probably get rid of them with the quickness, but brandishing a scimitar and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" in the student union might not go over so well with the others who were dining around you.
You did have your scimitar with you at the time, right?
'fraid so. The scimitar is the ideal implement for ensure conversions. Much better than little bibles, bags of rice, or free clothing.
And that better not have been a pork sausage!
(BTW, I'm gonna be watching this one either tonight or tomorrow night - "Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: Disc 1: The Battle of Ideas" - look it up on NetFrix, feel free to come down)
That's the problem with do unto others: I feel like most atheists (Richard Dawkins being an obvious exception) are doing what they wish people would do to them - leaving religious people alone and not trying to convert anybody. But even though I feel like most Christians would be really pissed off if you tried to convert them to atheism, or if you tried to explain to them why their often carefully considered beliefs aren't necesarily absolutely true - well, they still go around doing that to atheists.
The vast majority of religious people I know don't do the conversion thing... but maybe that's because I don't get along with people who do the conversion thing. But you're right
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I explained (stupid of me, why don't I just say FUCK OFF?) that I thought that religion is important to many people in the world, that it's possible that many people can't live a healthy mental life without believing in some sort of answer to life's eternal questions, but that I was not one of these people.
Hahaha. Yeah, I can't see that sort of thing going over well. I sometimes bring that up in conversation with people, but not usually with the missionary kind. And usually when I bring it up, I'm referencing C.G. Jung's The Undiscovered Self, which discusses the psychological benefit of the extramundane (i.e. irrational stuff that makes us feel better). I really liked that book when I read it. It's pretty short, too!
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Isn't it obvious!?
You see, Jesus didn't get tortured to death for our sins, on the contrary! You don't need to accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior, you have to submit to the will of Allah. Mohammed, an illiterate merchant, was dictated the holy Qu'uran by the archangel Gabriel, went around having his sycophants killing people, and then ascended into heaven or some junk. How could you be so blind?
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You did have your scimitar with you at the time, right?
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And that better not have been a pork sausage!
(BTW, I'm gonna be watching this one either tonight or tomorrow night - "Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: Disc 1: The Battle of Ideas" - look it up on NetFrix, feel free to come down)
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Hahaha. Yeah, I can't see that sort of thing going over well. I sometimes bring that up in conversation with people, but not usually with the missionary kind. And usually when I bring it up, I'm referencing C.G. Jung's The Undiscovered Self, which discusses the psychological benefit of the extramundane (i.e. irrational stuff that makes us feel better). I really liked that book when I read it. It's pretty short, too!
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What have you been up to?
How have you been?
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