If so, how?
2007-11-23 03:04:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I saved all the e-mails from the last month in here alone,you would be very surprised.
As an ex-born again christian I understand them,but can't empathise with the need to continue their opposite of schooling.
Since I became an atheist 13 or so years ago I cannot count the number of times I have had the same conversations.
Suffice it to say it is lots.
2007-11-23 03:15:00 · answer #1 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist but agnostic. But yes, people all the time try to convert me. On my campus, there is a "free speech" zone where anyone from the community can stand and say whatever they would like (within reason - no hate speech, etc.) and there are people all the time passing out Bibles and trying to 'save my soul' so to speak.
2007-11-23 03:09:25 · answer #2 · answered by poet_at_midnight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has happened many times all my life. Some of my relatives are bad for it. Mom's father was a pastor, but he died before I became an atheist. I told Dad when I was age 11 that I did not believe in god or heaven. He was shyocked, and mom was not happy about it. Various church men talked to me, but they could not convince me that I was wrong. I saw errors in the Bible at age 7.
2007-11-23 03:12:22 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not an atheist, but when I did get converted, it was the best thing that ever happened to me! I know what usually takes monks years to find out, have a reason to live when life sucks, and know what will happen to me once I'm worm food! Hallelujah!!!
2007-11-23 03:10:18 · answer #4 · answered by mradrz4evr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes my brother and his wife do every time I see them. They will start quoting scripture to me without stopping, one time they even invited my husband and I for dinner but we found out we weren't the only guests - the others were the reverend and deacons of their church who then proceeded to tell me why I must repent. Now my brother says if I don't become a christian I can not see his children.
Needless to say, I do not see my brother anymore and hopefully when my nieces are adults they will seek me out for the truth of why I did not see them during their childhood.
2007-11-23 03:09:48 · answer #5 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, sure, with long boring 'friendly' conversations that at some point revolve around simpleton arguments like "look at the complexity, there must be a designer" and other nonsense.
2007-11-23 03:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About half of the people here for example. Then there is the half of our "Speaking in tongues" freaky christians. I encounter something at every family gathering and almost daily by random drive by christianity. They constantly release prayers addressed to whom it may concern.
2007-11-23 03:10:55 · answer #7 · answered by Atrum Animus AM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My aunt. Some people I've met once the find out, "You don't believe in Jesus?" Said with fascination and horror. For the most part it doesn't bother my family any.
2007-11-23 03:09:25 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only Christians. And they try constantly. Mostly they try to tell me about the Good News and about their god's Free Gift. But when we sit down (figuratively) and discuss it I have found that they are unable to answer almost any of my questions.
2007-11-23 03:08:32 · answer #9 · answered by Alan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anytime you speak the Truth to them they report your questions and answers.....try and give them FACTS they push it away..........and it is as God said it would be...they will call evil good and good evil , and even when one came back from the dead , THey still would not believe !!!
I hope and Pray somewhere they would just take the time to read it and study it for themselves..............with an open mind and be willing to see its facts through History Gods Facts , not mans............
2007-11-23 03:09:51 · answer #10 · answered by hghostinme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋