Reply #25: Save people from "God", only if they "need" it.

[German-Lefty]

Same goes for atheists stop listening to lies about religion and research it yourself.
I do. In college I hung out with Bahia, Mormons, Catholics, even some Fundies. I find religion facinating. I also was curious if these kookie religions were a threat to our democratic civilization. I've got a Muslim friend right now who is a bit out there. I'm wondering if Islam is more threatening than Christianity.

The coolest thing about the Atheist student group is that nobody told you what to think. We'd have a topic for the night, and the moderator would ask "so what do think about X?" We'd have little debates and hardly ever agree, but at least understand each other. Compare that to Bible study.

We didn't concentrate on "saving people from God", but instead talked to people and said "hey look I'm not like you, but I'm a nice normal human being with a consitant world view. My morality/wordview is based on logic and the human experience. Please respect it."

Meeting someone else that's not "insane" or "evil" or "lieing" totally forces them to come to terms with serious problems in their religion.

Then again we were annoying at times too but all in good taste. I remember selling "top 10 reasons God is better than Beer shirts".
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