Shulem wrote:Res Ipsa,
Your last statement was well thought out and certainly valid from different points of view.
I have an interest in persuading anyone I can to give up Jesus and start living on their own merits and stand on their own feet without relying on an imaginary friend to rescue them from their sins. Mormons and Christians spend a lot of effort in spreading their so-called gospel and proselytizing the world in trying to get people to accept an imaginary Jesus. That's a fact. I reserve the right to do just the opposite and try and get people to give up the cult and recognize that murder and blood is what their religion was ultimately founded on. You know that Moses threw many a stone and many people suffered at his hands. He was a tyrant and an evil man. He was Jehovah's representative on earth - the head of the cult. Then came Jesus who tried to outdo Moses just like the Mormons came along to try and outdo the Reformation and Catholicism.
I really want Jersey Girl to give up Jesus. I hope she does, someday. I don't pray that she does because I don't pray to imaginary people but I do hope.
I guess what I’m missing is why it’s important to you that Jersey Girl give up Jesus. Yes, it’s true that Mormons and Christians proselytize. Does Jersey Girl? Not that I’ve seen. If she does, the way she does it is by the way she lives her life. So why not reciprocate. Show her it’s possible to be happy without Jesus, not by mocking and denigrating stuff that is important to her, but by showing her how a happy atheist lives his life.
I’m not interested in being a counter missionary, but if I were, I wouldn’t do anything differently than I am now. I can’t tell you how many Christian friends and acquaintances have been shocked to learn that I’m an atheist. I get a kick out of it, especially when they try and argue that I couldn’t really be an atheist.
When you approach Mormons or Christians this way, do you think anyone watching thinks “Now there’s a happy and fulfilled atheist. I want to be like him!”
