Here is an analogy for people who are annyed at Christians for being too pushy...Agree?

Question

You are on a boat...

The boat is sinking...

You look up to see a helicopter and a man throwing a ladder

The Man Dies Saving You


You save yourself, but some people are left behind...

The people try using alternative methods like swimming...

You keep urging them and bugging them to save themselves but they wont listen!...

They start to get annoyed at you but you keep telling and begging them to save themselves!!!!

But the people keep refusing!

Anyone agree with this analogy?

Helicopter=God

Ladder=Christianity

You=Christian

The Man With Ladder=Jesus

People Who Dont Want To Be Saved=Non-Christians

Alternative Methods= Other Religions

Any thoughts on what I just wrote?

Yeah, Pangel, but the ladder is the ONLY way...The other methods DONT work.

Answer 1

I answered another question like this earlier today. I am Jewish and have been Jewish for 60 years. I must have heard this "analogy" or things like this about 10,000 times from 10,000 people. It doesn't work and it never will work. I do not need to be saved. If I follow the 7 Noahide Laws and live my life as a righteous person to the best of my abilities, then I will, at some point after my death, enter the World to Come. This is what I believe; this is what I will always believe and it makes me happy, content, fulfilled and just as good as you feel about your religion. I appreciate the thought; it's nice of you to care, but it's enough already!

Answer 2

Not at all.
This is a concept that you have developed in your mind as a reaction to a myth. It does not excuse being rude.
Meanwhile, what if I were to tell you that your pushiness was driving people away from that helicopter and the best argument you could make for climbing aboard is to get on yourself and let that be the loudest statement about the right way to survive? Even if you knew that were true, could you stand to be humble and let God do the talking through your actions?

Answer 3

Here is an analogy for people who are annoyed at Atheists for being too pushy...Agree?

You are in class..

The curriculum is sinking...

You look up to see a professor lecturing

Men die to protect your right to an education


You save yourself, but some people are left behind...

The people try using alternative methods like praying...

You keep urging them and bugging them to learn for themselves but they wont listen!...

They start to get annoyed at you but you keep telling and begging them to learn for themselves!!!!

But the people keep refusing!

Anyone agree with this analogy?

Class = the World

Professor = Education

You=Atheist

The Men who died are atheists, blacks, jews, homosexuals, christians, women, and children fighting wars on all soils for you.

People Who Dont Want To learn=-Christians

Alternative Methods= Praying

Any thoughts on what I just wrote?

Answer 4

The thing with this analogy is that some other religions may say that the ladder is Their religion. Its the endless problem of Mine Is Better Than Yours.

I think that if you think the path you have chosen is the best you should just live your life in a way eneryone can see you are right, so everyone can see how your path is really working in your life. But when we start telling people what to do it gets ugly.

Answer 5

I disagree.

If I didn't see any evidence of a helicopter flying around, or of you getting saved by a guy in a helicopter, or of the guy with the ladder dying, why on earth should I believe that this all happened? You'd be shouting at me to get on your helicopter in the middle of an ocean, clinging to your desperate attempt to imagine something that isn't there, while I would do something helpful, like find some debris or something equally real to hang on to.

Answer 6

It is nicely written, and seems like an excellent analogy of the view of many Christians. That doesn't make it correct. The fact is, that is this were applied to real life, noone would be drowning, but the person with the ladder would still be shouting at the people stationed safely on the ground, trying to convince them of imaginary dangers.

Answer 7

It's a good analogy... if your actually drowning in the first place. My analogy: the helicopter isn't real, and the ladder leads to nowhere, and the guy who keeps trying to save me should put a sock in it :P

No offense, I just hate having other peoples views pushed upon me, regardless of good intentions.

Answer 8

When Jesus sent his disciples out to spread the word he told them that where people would not listen-walk away-and shake the dust off yourself when you go. It will serve as a testament against them.
From that I think when:

"You keep urging them and bugging them to save themselves but they wont listen!...
They start to get annoyed at you but you keep telling and begging them to save themselves!!!!
But the people keep refusing!

It is going beyond what Jesus wants us to do. When did Jesus ever beg anyone to believe in him? When atheists try to force their views on us don't we also become annoyed?
Do what you can within reason-but don't beg-and don't push. Plant what seeds you can then leave it to the Holy Spirit to do the "convicting" since we are not to judge.

Answer 9

But the analogy means nothing if you can't even prove that I'm in that dangerous situation in the first place. I might as well say that all the atheists here are just trying to save you from the "trecherous ocean of outdated beliefs" using the "rescue helicopter of logic". That's all we're trying to do. We're just trying to save you from drowning, but you keep refusing us. Why? Why do you keep refusing help?

Again, the analogy means nothing if you can't even prove that we're all in that situation in the first place.

Answer 10

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