Yesterday I had the misfortune to be cornered by a religious zealot. Now please don't get me wrong, I don't care what religion anyone is, it is none of my business, and it is a totally subjective thing. However, after five minutes this man told me I was going to go to hell because I do not believe in god.
He also said, that anyone who believes in god will go to heaven, everyone else will go to hell.
So I said, " so you're telling me that Hitler, or Stalin or a rapist mugger murderer beast would go to heaven if they believed in god ?'
He said " yes ". So I replied thus " So someone like me, who has told a lie, has looked lasciviously at someone else's partner, and says the word GOD often in the expletive, but who is generally a good person, will go to hell ? ". He said " yes ".
Then I asked about babies, who are too young to believe in anything...... he couldn't answer me.
I then said what about before the bible was written, and god wasn't well publicised, where did people go then ? He couldn't answer.
He said that carbon dating and dinosaurs were not ancient but quite young and put there by god to confuse non-christians, and that Stonehenge and the Pyramids were only a few hundred years old. OMG, he was a school teacher....mind you not a history one I grant you !
Confused is right, but I think this pertained to himself !
Then I said, "the only problem mate is that I don't believe in hell. It's your hell, your making, not mine, so you go burn in it !".
He said the bible was true. I said if that was the case then we were all in breds, as Adam and Eve had two sons Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel, so to procreate Eve would have had to have sex with her son Cain......
It just went on an on. He wouldn't leave me alone, and he was a teacher. Now I don't care what religion anyone is, but why is it the only christians I ever meet are ones that try to convert me..... I will write more later....but I have to say, I don't live in a world the way he does. If god is so judgmental as to say that most decent people who don't believe in him have to go to hell, then that to me is high praise. I will not, nor ever be bribed into believing in something I don't believe in so that I can spend my life on a fluffy cloud eating marshmallows. Bring on the heat baby !
