Cipher Girl

What are the most idiotic conversion attempts that people have heard? The most idiotic one I have heard occurred last weekend.

Me, the hubby, and a couple of friends attended a birthday party for the head of his company. Me and one of our friends were holding a table for the rest of us when we were approached by a guy in his fifties holding a handful of some type of metal coins. My friend was wearing some type of vietnam veteran's t-shirt.

The guy approached us and said "Well we would have done better in Vietnam if we had John 3:16 with our M16s." and shoved these coins in our hands. They had "Have you thought about your eternal salvation?" on one side, and John 3:16 on the other.

We both looked at him like he was crazy and continued with our conversation. The man left. Later on I was in line for the birthday cake and the same man was telling some little girl "If you want to learn about angels, then read the bible." Her parents got her away from the guy.

What an idiot. I think he was pissing off both religious and non-religious people wherever he went. Totally clueless. We threw the coins away instead of giving them back, it would be fewer people he could pester in the future.

But the M16 line was one of the most godawful conversion conversation starters I have ever heard.

BeansRBad

.... "you're going to hell". This is a pretty idiotic thing to say knowing that I didn't believe in hell.

I did have a conversation with a man who made all manner of idiotic comments. He said that his God made the world and used the atomic clock in doing so.

He said that I was looking for someone to get me back on track. This was an idiotic thing to say since he was the one who approached me. Hell, I was just eating my lunch and whistling a tune when he came by asserting the world was about to end because of women's lib.

I had a good time that day.

sodium

Maybe that's not such a bad line. I remember as a child on holiday reading a Gideon's Bible in search of information about demons, and complaining to my parents about the lack of an index.

Arken

"Once I was a non-believer like you."

I hate that. It's almost always a lie.

TiredJim

One time a Jehova's witness told me that his church group had proved the bible. He even went out of his way to say it wasn't some "fancy guy in a suit," but in fact just them. Never did get to hear how...

(not a conversation opener, I know, but too funny not to mention)

JaeIsGod

"God exists , the Bible sais so!!"

"You are going to burn for all eternity"

"John 3:16"

Secular Pinoy

Some things I hear from supposedly good-intentioned christians:

• "Oh, you don't believe in god? I'm sorry for you."
  
• "I will pray to god to give you the strength to accept him."
  
• "Atheism is illogical, See this leaf, it's proof of god's design."
  
• "Jesus loves you and wants you to believe in him."
  
• "There's a reason to everything, otherwise why should we live?"
  
• "I know deep down you believe, it's human pride that has blinded you to his grace."
  
• "If you believe in god, even if he doesn't exist, it's ok since you've lived a good and moral life." (And tons of other Pascal's Wager variants)
  
• "The bible is the best selling book in the world, there must be a reason for that."
  
• "Christianity is the world's largest religion, and the only it is so, is because it's true."
  
• "You just have to believe!"
  
• "Logic is cold and leaves your life empty, only faith in god can make a difference in your life."
  
• "Sometimes, you just have to believe first, and then the proof will come later, your life will change."
  
• "Before I was a christian, my life was in shambles, but when I accepted Jesus into my life, my life got better and better."
  
• "If you don't believe in god, you probably think you're descended from monkeys then?"
  
• "You're just angry with god, it's just childish."
  
• "But what about the fulfilled prophecies in the bible, it must surely be the work of god."
  
• "Sometimes it takes a tragedy for someone to acknowledge god, don't wait for it to happen, believe in god and he will protect you."
  
• "Jesus talks to me, and it pains him that there are doubters like you."
  
• "Where did matter come from? Only god create matter from nothing."
  
• "Science has been proving the bible true. Did you know hear about the missing day that was calculated by NASA? It proves the bible story about Joshua stopping the sun."
  
• "Even Darwin came to his senses and repudiated his theory of evolution, and asked for god's forgiveness."
  
• "Believe in Christ. I cannot be friends with non-christians."

Rational BAC

What missing day calculated by NASA?

That is a new one for me.

CJD

One that Secular partially hit on:

Jesus loves you, and has a wonderful plan for your life.

p.s. Rational, ever been to the Fox and Hounds? (East Hwy. 60).

Rhaedas

It happened to be in the recent June feedback from Talk Origins ...the fourth one down. And apparently it's so false that even creationist sites (AiG even) debunk it.