Bob Coy on Evangelism to Atheists

Magician and performer, Penn Jillette commented about a man who gave him a Bible at the end of one of his shows. For more from Bob Coy go to www.activeword.org/blog

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@StrumstickJoe

lol, I've read that before, but it's so weird when you're in a religion, it just doesn't seem ridiculous, it seems normal.

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@StrumstickJoe

Yes I like your videos :-)

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@mfentruck To clarify - the first paragraph is not my original.

PS

My videos are my legacy to the world, give them a "hit"

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@mfentruck Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

It makes perfect sense. - not mine - and I will improve on it - but it ridicules just like christians ridicule the other "faiths".

;-)

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@StrumstickJoe

Well I actually agree with you in that now that I am an atheist, I no longer see the appeal to religion. Being an atheist is nothing like I expected it to be. I expected it to be hopeless, depressing, pathetic but it's not at all and I feel a sort of relief. Giving up my belief in the afterlife was really scary at first but now that fear is all gone.

I think the threat of hell & promise of heaven explains why many intelligent people remain theists.

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@mfentruck Fair enough; I see you better now. I do have a lack of understanding about the massive appeal of the religions.

I don't think it's fair to class me with those who want to make religios feel inferior - the opposite would be true: it's my aim to make them see that if you take responsibility for yourself, then it can be liberating. If you're not waiting for a mythical afterlife, it can release you into the value of this one.

I also want people to 'hit' my vids - with love or hate!

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@StrumstickJoe

Yes, I did get out of religion and I have been an atheist for two years. How awesome that you never believed it, good for you. But I think (fellow atheists) like you are being douchey when you make comments like, "religion is the club of the willfully ignorant". Same type of atheists that say all religious people are idiots because it makes them feel superior. I think it shows a lack of understanding on your part.

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@mfentruck So do I understand that you've got out of religion?

If so I don't understand why you swore at me.

I have no fight with you whether you're a believer, an ex-believer, or whatever.

I was indoctrinated, but never believed it; they scared me for a little while, but I was young.

The young and vulnerable are their prime targets. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I looked up douche, and I'm not; the adjective was gratuitous; added nothing to the meaning.

Peace on earth.

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@StrumstickJoe

It's not always willful ignorance. You have no idea what it's like to be indoctrinated from birth. I was not willfully ignorant, I was indoctrinated. It used to be unthinkable for me to imagine that there was no god. You're being a fucking douche.

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The patient, polite, naive, innocent believer has several things to answer for: he tells lies to children that they are born evil; he tells them that they can only get out of that by loving a dead man, who will repay the slightest infringement (including doubt and failure to worship him) with eternal torture.

But also, he gives credence, by his belief in the cult, to those who believe only what he does, but carry a bomb.

Religion is the club of the wilfully ignorant.

Shame on you all.