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Act_of_Reparation

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12. A Baptist minister showed up at my door Saturday morning...
Mon Sep 29, 2014, 12:05 PM
Sep 2014

... selling his religion, with his two small children in tow. I opened the door, the children thrust a couple of flyers into my hands.

The minister then introduces himself. He's a pleasant enough fellow, but after he finishes telling me who he is and what he does for a living he asks me, "Have you thought about where you're going to spend eternity."

Now, I'd say I'm a fairly impassioned antitheist. While I am told this makes me "just as bad" as the guy knocking on my door, threatening me with hellfire while effectively using his children as human shields against the salvo of sciency shit I normally dispense upon such malefactors, it occurs to me that I have never gone door to door to talk to people about atheism, or handed out invitations to atheist organizations or free atheist tracts, or, least of all, spoke authoritatively about where one may or may not end up after death as a means to sell my personal philosophy to others.

But I'm the arrogant one.

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Tell me more... [View all] Heddi Sep 2014 OP
Bwahahahaha. Good one. Curmudgeoness Sep 2014 #1
HA! frogmarch Sep 2014 #2
Out of all the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #3
We're a bunch of early adopters in here... onager Sep 2014 #4
Reminds me of.. uriel1972 Sep 2014 #5
Ask, and Ye shall... NeoGreen Sep 2014 #6
Extra Large... NeoGreen Sep 2014 #7
Wow, just wow... uriel1972 Sep 2014 #8
Epic fail, Jesus (as usual) onager Sep 2014 #9
that is hilarious RussBLib Sep 2014 #10
LMFAO! trotsky Sep 2014 #11
A Baptist minister showed up at my door Saturday morning... Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #12
Well, you're definitely the one that needs to be targeted and attacked on a message board... trotsky Sep 2014 #13
When your big plan to get atheists and theists on the same page... Act_of_Reparation Sep 2014 #14
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