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Dealing with prosletyzing Christians
#4340079 - 06/26/05 06:51 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just thought it'd be funny to hear of your interactions with prosletyzing christians, as I had a pretty humerous encounter last night.
As we were leaving Electric Daisy Carnival, a big carnival/rave, there were christians passing out rants on paper, ranting on a sound system, generally harassing everyone with loads of negativity... 'you want to go to hell?' and what not.
One of them came over to me and my girlfriend, rapping all this negative scripture in our faces, full of lakes of fire and what not... So I started singing Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
"666, the number of the beast! Hell and Fire were spawned to be released! "
The guy looked at me like I was insane, lol. "You just uttered the devil's number... do you want to go to hell?"
I threw him a healthy dose of the goat and kept on singing and rockin out to Maiden.
I guess the ideal approach is to be polite, say that I'm extremely happy with my spiritual situation, and wish them well, but sometimes ya just can't resist having a little fun with these people
I actually did make pretty good friends with one of the prosletyzers at my school... some of them sincerely want to help people find the right path, unfortunately they can't accept the validity of any others.
The dudes last night, though, were just on a sadistic jesus power trip.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Noviseer]
#4340224 - 06/26/05 07:52 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hahaha nice. I love how they want to scare you into joining their religion.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Boomstick]
#4340304 - 06/26/05 08:17 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm a waitress. Two older ladies came in and sat down. One was wearing a giant golden pin that I could read from across the room that said "I Jesus" The was encrusted with pink glass.
So I bring them some water and ask what can I get for them today.
LADY 1: What do you suggest for a good appetizer? ME: Pita chips are pretty yummy. They come with a great dip. LADY 1: Are they salted? ME: Yes, they are lightly salted. LADY 1: Oooooooh. I don't know, then. What do you think, Maeve? What would the lord do? MAEVE: Well, the bible says that we should eat salt sometimes... (This is where she pulls out a purse size bible and starts looking for a particular passage....) ME: How about I give you ladies a few minutes to decide? I'll BRB.
When they were leaving, the lady with the mini-bible signalled for me to come close and she whispered in my ear "I really like your little eyebrow ring. My grandson has one in his lip. Never fear the devil within you....Jesus loves you and he'll always look out for you"
Again, I was like .
Some people are so strange. I'm sure some people say the same thing about me, tho.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: CherryBom]
#4340321 - 06/26/05 08:20 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Did you get a good tip?
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Noviseer]
#4340323 - 06/26/05 08:20 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Have pity on them, for they are the truly blind.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: soochi]
#4340339 - 06/26/05 08:23 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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soochi said: Have pity on them, for they are the truly blind.
hear hear
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: soochi]
#4340344 - 06/26/05 08:25 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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reminds me of a time my freinds worked at this outside mall in calli and there was christains singing a long haveing a good ol time when out of no where i stand up on a bench and shout "YOUR GOD IS DEAD AND NO ONE CARES IF THERE IS A HELL I WILL SEE YOU THERE YOUR GOD IS DEAD"
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Learyfan]
#4340352 - 06/26/05 08:26 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: Did you get a good tip?
Actually, no. They left me like .75 cents. Although I am fairly certain that they thought it was a generous tip.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: onetime]
#4340361 - 06/26/05 08:28 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Now that's mean. If they bother you, I could see messing with them a little bit for laughs, but come on now.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: CherryBom]
#4340370 - 06/26/05 08:31 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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every time i here some one that i consider a freind is a waitress i feal real bad and add there name to my will and try to eat where they work just so i can tip them good
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: CherryBom]
#4340372 - 06/26/05 08:32 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Don't go spending all that on candy whistles and moon pies now.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: CherryBom]
#4340679 - 06/26/05 09:57 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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this reminds me of when i was in highschool. we had a take home final in Calc BC and me and 2 others were in an IHOP working on it all night. one of the guys was wearing a "I baby seals" shirt and this guy walked up and said, 'you think thats funny?' and started giving us bullshit. It seemed we upset him even more by laughing. He left and came back 3 minutes later and started giving us more hippy bullshit. Anyway that was a fun night.
oh, and i baby seals
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: fearfect]
#4340929 - 06/26/05 11:24 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfffft...Where I'm from, Everyone clubs seals.
p.s. cool story Bomb, I used to live with a born again christian, that spent an absurd amount of time and effort to 'save' me...when he wasn't busy trying to save me he was the biggest asshole around. I had to bail that prick out of many a bar fight because he turns into an asshole after a few drinks...guess he was actually the one that needed saving.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Noviseer]
#4340962 - 06/26/05 11:34 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Organized religon is a joke mang!! don't let them get to you, I dropped my old ways for personal discovery...
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Skunk420]
#4340979 - 06/26/05 11:38 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Were you a Morman?
All religions that require you to believe in something there is no evidence of are bullshit and should be avoided like the plague. Anything that espouses blind faith and unquestioning belief should be discarded immediately.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Ravus]
#4340994 - 06/26/05 11:43 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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hey I dont care,,I am a self discoverer..almost all organized religon are hippocrites anyway..
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: CherryBom]
#4340997 - 06/26/05 11:45 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've never had problems with the Christians who would like to talk about religion but respect your desire not to if you have no wish to get into such matters. Believing in Jesus as Christ and spreading the love he wanted is one thing, condemnding and forcing conversion onto people is another. Sounds like those ladies were a bit passionate about their beliefs, but weren't condeming you. She said Jesus was looking out for you, to me that should be taken as something like "the energy that guides us all loves all of us." No stress.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Signo]
#4341001 - 06/26/05 11:47 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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the energy that guides us all loves all of us
Speak for yourself eh? No energy guides me.
All I need is some es-em-eh-see-kay and I'm good.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Boomstick]
#4341026 - 06/26/05 11:55 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Boomstick said: Hahaha nice. I love how they want to scare you into joining their cult.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Signo]
#4342221 - 06/27/05 08:27 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh they were really sweet old ladies and I'm not condeming them for consulting the bible before they ordered and appetizer.
Hey, to each thier own. They weren't pushing crap on me or anything, they were just hungry.
I find that christianity is 'exposed' to me in waves. I went to church a few times as a kid because some of my friends went and I wanted to be a part of what they were doing. I was about 7 years old. In Sunday School I learned that black people are different and it's unacceptable to wear jeans to church. That's it.
My mom bought me a kids bible with those really thin rice pages and I thought it was awesome. I pretended it was a spell book and my sister and I would collect rocks and different types of dirt and cast spells on my parents to make Kraft Dinner for supper and buy us candy.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Noviseer]
#4342242 - 06/27/05 08:37 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I was wearing a shirt once when I was like 16 in the mall that said "G_ F_CK Y__RS_LF" "want to buy a vowel?"
One of those crazy christian women came up to me and started ranting and raving about hell and burning fire, and how jesus can save me. So I let her rant for like 3 or 4 minutes before I said bluntly "I'm Jewish. Have a nice day."
The look on her face was priceless.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Ravus]
#4342396 - 06/27/05 09:31 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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mormonism is a joke, some guy named john smith tells people he talked to god; and people started to believe him?? I wonder if I could get away with that?
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: soochi]
#4342428 - 06/27/05 09:43 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alot of religions are a joke! I usually just don't reply when it comes to religion because I never know when I may be trodding on some distant deity's feet. I respect peoples' beliefs and let them be. As long as their beliefs don't get in the way of mine then it's all good.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Cid_Lives]
#4342588 - 06/27/05 10:56 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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religions have nothing (nothing!) on schools of philosophy.
especially if it's your own school.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Noviseer]
#4342636 - 06/27/05 11:06 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have no problem whatsoever with christians until they get in my face and start condemning me to hellfire and an eternal life with satan 10 seconds after they first lay eyes on me. Then its war. As far as I am concerned, they are satan, and I'm an angel of god there to shut them the fuck up. Otherwise, believe and worship however you please, as long as you don't start telling me that I'm going to hell because of your narrow-minded dogmatic beliefs. I was involved with christians for a long time during my childhood.. there are some seriously warped individuals in that religion. A lot of them are laid back, and very cool.. believe what they believe.. share it with others when they are asked.. aren't pushy with anyone.. treat everyone with kindness. I respect that. But once you start bible thumping and holier-than-thou belief peddling on me.. all bets are off. I'm liable to paint a pentagram on my forehead and put stage blood all over myself just to be the devil's advocate. Yeah, we actually did that to a jehovahs witness once. They didn't come inside.
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CherryBom said: My mom bought me a kids bible with those really thin rice pages and I thought it was awesome. I pretended it was a spell book and my sister and I would collect rocks and different types of dirt and cast spells on my parents to make Kraft Dinner for supper and buy us candy.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Shroomism]
#4342669 - 06/27/05 11:16 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Shroomism said: I'm liable to paint a pentagram on my forehead and put stage blood all over myself just to be the devil's advocate. Yeah, we actually did that to a jehovahs witness once. They didn't come inside.
hah!! You should have said "Oh good, you're just in time for the sacrifice. Come in, come in."
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Liz]
#4342704 - 06/27/05 11:25 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well.. they got there at about 9 in the morning.. after a night of debuachery and madness in a small apartment.. so it probably looked that way.. needless to say the place was already trashed.. beer bottles everywhere, bongs laying about.. couches overturned.. half naked people passed out on the floor.. we saw them coming and we got all excited so we just took our shirts off and started painting satanic things all over each other .. they took one look inside and backed away.. they skipped the next two apartment buildings
That's one way to deal with them. Scare them away or just choose the complete opposite stance and rub it in their face, like they do. How do you think Satanism came about? Thats how. Anti-Christianity. That's all it is basically.. with a lot of ignorance added. They are similar in a lot of ways.
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Re: Dealing with prosletyzing Christians [Re: Shroomism]
#4342717 - 06/27/05 11:29 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I wish Jehovas Wittnesses would should up an our door. That sounds like fun.
There was this guy I went on a few dates with, and somehow at one point, the topic of religion came up. I told him I didn't believe in organized religion, that it just wasn't my thing...he proceeded to tell methat he was a Jehovas Wittness, and started being extremely pushy about his beliefs. So I calmly asked for the check, handed it to him when I came, and said "I was raised Jewish, so you can pay the bill, pal" and I left.
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