Has calling atheists idiots ever won any converts to jesus?

Question

I'm not insulted, someone who thinks a man in the sky who throws fireballs has bigger problems then me, but just asking, did anyone say I DONT WANT TO BE AN IDIOT, and then became a Christian

Answer 1

I would say yes, unfortunately. Herd mentality is a terrible thing. Many would capitulate if enough people were calling them one.

Look at this experiment;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

Answer 2

Hey if your an atheist than whatever dude but stop with the whole "someone who thinks a man in the sky who throws fireballs has bigger problems then me" thing. Thats pretty insulting to me and all other Christians out there.

Answer 3

Has calling Christians idiots ever won any converts to atheism?
Did anyone ever say, I DON'T WANT TO BE AN IDIOT, and then became an atheist? Different strokes for different folks.........

Answer 4

Has calling Christians idiots ever won anyone to atheism?

Has calling your brother an idiot ever gotten him to stop butchering song lyrics?

Has calling your daughter an idiot made her any better at math?

Not the best question I've seen today.

Answer 5

Honestly Mr. Jim, there aren't a lot of true Christians out there who love their neighbor and truly walk with the Lord. I've found their are a lot of hypocrites out there who become Christian because they're afraid or because their parents of friend's are Christians. A true Christian wouldn't insult you and try to drag you down but a lot of "Christians" haven't caught on to that. I'm a Christian myself but when I encounter Christians like you're talking about, I'm not surprised why so many people harbor ill feelings towards "Christians".

Answer 6

Well said...many Christians would rather call you an idiot and grow their ego, than approach you and try to talk to you or just be your friends. What can you say? Not only they do something the bible doesnt support, but they make potential Christians enemies and push them away...

Answer 7

although all of us learn about Jesus changed into written upwards of one hundred years after his lack of existence by using human beings that not in any respect met him. it really is all rumour and overblown fictionalized expenses. As such, it isn't available to inform from Scriptures even if Jesus had any real encounters with non-believers. a variety of of the persons he's declared to have linked with were Jews and as such may've had some concept in God. He ought to o.k. have switched over some pagans (i.e. Romans) to boot. As for real atheists, who's prevalent with?

Answer 8

Apparently C. S. Lewis did, to answer your question. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Influenced by arguments with his Oxford colleague and Roman Catholic friend J. R. R. Tolkien, and by G.K. Chesterton's book, The Everlasting Man, he slowly rediscovered Christianity. In 1929, he came to believe in the existence of God although he fought greatly against it. He describes his last struggle in Surprised by Joy:

"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."

In 1931, after a lengthy discussion with Tolkien and another close friend, Hugo Dyson, he reconverted to Christianity and (to the regret of Tolkien) joined the Church of England. He noted, "I came into Christianity kicking and screaming."

Answer 9

No, I don't think calling people names has ever converted anyone at all. I mean think about it. If someone called you an idiot, would you join them? I think if you joined them, then you really would be an idiot.

Answer 10

so what are you saying here jim, that Christians are idiots? I've said it before and I'll say it again... we all will see in the end. I'm no dummy! but you don't have to be an Einstein to be a believer in Christ.. you just have to have faith and a willing heart..

Answer 11

No, because calling someone an idiot is not very Christian-like, is it?