Converts...from Islam to Christianity?

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 12-31-2008, 20:46

Originally Posted by HoreTore

I'm sorry, but I have yet to see atheists(or any other non-christian) do any of the following:

- distribute flyers telling you you're going to hell if you don't follow the true religion

Seen this from atheists, though obviously not going to "hell"

- stand around in streets or whatever to preach

Saw this once over Christmas, they were Evangelicals and American sponsored, I've had more contact with weirdo sects this year, and Buddhists a couple of times.

- send missionaries on door to door missions*

This is the people of the JH persuasion, they're often quite nice actually. I usually invite them in for a cup of tea, just like my mum does. After all, they do a thankless job. Never come across a Christian denomination that does this.

- organize massive rallies to convert people

Never even heard of this

- organize miracle rallies to make people believe

Heard of this, never heard of one near me. Personally I'd be more worried about a demon possessing the miracle worker than I'd expect a cure. I'm not big on demons

....and this is just a few of the billion number of extremely annoying ways the christians use to convert people. Please stop. I'm tired.

No more than two of which apply to any Christian I have met.

Why don't you stop with the insulting and, frankly, ignorant generalisation.

Not any more, because I'm switched jobs. However, at my old job, every day I went to buy some lunch, and on my way to buy said lunch, I would be pestered by the same idiot handing out the watchtower. First on my way there, then once again on the way back

One guy? That's your basis for hating religion in all it's forms?

**Kralizec** · 12-31-2008, 20:56

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

One guy? That's your basis for hating religion in all it's forms?

Don't be unfair Philipvs, HoreTore always singles out christianity in his rants

**HoreTore** · 12-31-2008, 21:31

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

One guy? That's your basis for hating religion in all it's forms?

Nah. My fundamentalist relatives took care of that pickle pretty much from the beginning...

Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla

After all, they do a thankless job.

As well as an utterly pointless, irrelevant, annoying and idiotic job. Get a haircut and a real job, lousy hippies.

Originally Posted by Fenring

Don't be unfair Philipvs, HoreTore always singles out christianity in his rants

That's not true!! I also pick on conservatives, market libbies and nationalists...

**LittleGrizzly** · 12-31-2008, 23:03

Seen this from atheists, though obviously not going to "hell"

So you've seen atheists dristribute flyers saying people are going to if they don't follow the true religion...

the words religion and hell wouldn't really play with an atheist flyer (unless they were questioning them) so i dont see how atheists could do something similar without hell mentioned...

I have never once had an atheist try to convert me, many times people have attempted to convert me to christianity... im sure there are atheists who try to force thier beliefs on others, but they are hugely outnumbered by christians who try to force thier beliefs on others...

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 12-31-2008, 23:12

Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

So you've seen atheists dristribute flyers saying people are going to if they don't follow the true religion...

The way HoreTore worded his post was obviously a little strange. However, yes, I have seen (and I presume he has seen as well) atheists distributing flyers saying that religion is wrong.

im sure there are atheists who try to force thier beliefs on others, but they are hugely outnumbered by christians who try to force thier beliefs on others...

Perhaps it is a matter of location, but I've always had many more militant atheists trying to talk me into following their quasi-religion.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 01-01-2009, 00:30

I agree in many circumstances it's annoying and often they sound ignorant, but when they're telling you that you're going to hell, in many cases they genuinly believe what they're talking about and want to "save" you. At least from what my right wing Christian conservatives tell me...

Converting seems to be a problem when money is involved. For example Mormons require members of the church to send 1/10th (I think that's the fraction) of their income to the Mormon church. There is a perfect reason to have aggressive conversion stances...

**LittleGrizzly** · 01-01-2009, 00:43

Perhaps it is a matter of location, but I've always had many more militant atheists trying to talk me into following their quasi-religion.

Well to be honest in personal experience its hardly any of either, in school it simply wasn't discussed except in r.e. though thinking on it that means we get told about all the religions but not atheism... but in personal experience very little of christianity, and well i never see like a group of people in town centre trying to tell people theres no god, maybe it only happens in fairly big cities but in the likes of newport and cardiff and i can honestly say i haven't seen it (not that im there all the time)

I was more basing my opinion on the fact that there are big powerful organisations with commited followers who want to convert people, whereas there seem to be little disorganised groups of atheists making the odd effort, with things like the bus advertising topic we discussed a while back...

**HoreTore** · 01-01-2009, 04:05

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

I agree in many circumstances it's annoying and often they sound ignorant, but when they're telling you that you're going to hell, in many cases they genuinly believe what they're talking about and want to "save" you. At least from what my right wing Christian conservatives tell me...

So what? Why on earth should I care...?

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 01-01-2009, 19:42

Originally Posted by HoreTore

So what? Why on earth should I care...?

Take it as a compliment they care about your being in their afterlife. Other then that, get over it.

**Fragony** · 01-01-2009, 13:41

Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars

The way HoreTore worded his post was obviously a little strange. However, yes, I have seen (and I presume he has seen as well) atheists distributing flyers saying that religion is wrong.

Atheists are much more pushy indeed. Christians accepts atheism, and I never have Jehova's at my door, had one in the 7 years I live here, gave her a cup of coffee was raining like hell and politely said I wasn't interested and that was all there was to it.