When a cultist approaches me and begins prostelytizing I do not allow them to waste their time or mine by debating.
Instead I politely present the Gospel in the simplest terms possible. I always emphasize how deeply Jesus loves them by sacrificing His life for them. This is usually when the "deer in the headlights" look appears but it's OK -- at least they heard what they needed to hear.
One thing I learned years ago is to NEVER allow cult members, New Age believers, or whatever to go on lecturing at length. We have the AUTHORITY in Christ to lovingly yet boldly cover over their blasphemies with His truth! (nodding smilie)
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"We have the AUTHORITY in Christ the Christian Church to lovingly yet boldly loudly and rudely cover over their blasphemies religious stories with His truth! our stories which are at least equally silly, if not more so!"
Fixed.
PS: I must, in good conscience, thank you and others like you, BarbT. Without empty-headed proselytizing pompous blowhards like yourself, there wouldn't be anywhere nearly as many atheists or other freethinkers as there are now!
"When a cultist approaches me and begins prostelytizing I do not allow them to waste their time or mine by debating"
Instead I determine which cult they're in, which tells me what myth they are required to believe in. Then I use that myth to devise a question that they can't answer in any way without discrediting their myth. The deer in the headlights expression on their face is hilarious. I don't let them go on lecturing at length. I keep repeating the question over and over until they realise I don't recognise their authority to inflict their mental illness on me.
That's one of my biggest beefs with people like this right there--the way they conveniently ignore how human nature works. No matter what your novels and church skits tell you, the atheist or Pagan or liberal Christian or Muslim "cultist" you approach will very likely NOT sit there raptly at attention with wide-open eyes and firmly shut lips while you lecture them on and on. But you'll act all shocked and victimized anyway when the "cultist" gets upset or walks away, won't you?
And there is no "politely" in your attitude. At all. Quit pretending.
"When a cultist approaches me and begins prostelytizing I do not allow them to waste their time or mine by debating."
The irony is lost on her/him, isn't it?
"We have the AUTHORITY in Christ to lovingly yet boldly cover over their blasphemies with His truth!"
Arrogant little prick, aren't ya?
please approach me in the parking lot at the grocery store.
ftr....us pagans have far more dignity to go skulking about in parking lots, gas stations, etc.
"Instead I politely present the Gospel in the simplest terms possible. I always emphasize how deeply Jesus loves them by sacrificing His life for them. This is usually when the "deer in the headlights" look appears but it's OK -- at least they heard what they needed to hear."
One cultist trying to convert another. How cute.
"One thing I learned years ago is to NEVER allow cult members, New Age believers, or whatever to go on lecturing at length. We have the AUTHORITY in Christ to lovingly yet boldly cover over their blasphemies with His truth! (nodding smilie)"
You're not very bright I see.
When a cultist approaches me and begins prostelytizing I do not allow them to waste their time or mine by debating.
"Sorry, sir, but I'm in a death cult already and we generally don't like competition."
Groooooooan. I badly want this to be an attempt at sarcasm, but I don't want to delude myself into believing that it is.
How could anybody possibly avoid seeing how ludicrously hypocritical this is?
Alleged Cultist: Hi,
The reason why BarbT won't allow anybody else to go on lecturing at length is because it would sound like this:
Alleged 'Cultist': Hi...
Gaaaah! It makes me want to join a cult (and not Christianity, either).
*Stares blankly*
*blink*
*blink*
Umm...is this irony?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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