DangerousTalk

Earlier this week, I wrote about how religious believers often seem like they are just waiting to die and that this world is just a doorway into the next world. For many Christians, this world only purpose is to serve God by proselytizing until the end comes. But now, when a Christians comes to proselytize to me, I can tell them that I am just waiting to die.

According to most Christians, Jesus saves not by works, out of grace. This means that it doesn’t matter what you do in life as long as you accept Jesus as your savior before your death. So when Christians come to proselytize to me, I can tell them that I am waiting to die… or more accurately right before I die. I can tell them that this way I can sin all I want and not have to worry, but that moments before I die, I plan to accept Jesus’s sacrifice. I can even encourage them to do the same.

Now of course, I have no intention of doing that. That type of Pascal’s Wager just doesn’t appeal to me. But it might get the proselytizer to pause and consider. If I can get them to leave religion until they are ready to die, they might just end up leaving religion all together. At the very least, it might get them to stop trying to proselytize to me.

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