{"id":868,"date":"2010-02-24T10:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=868"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:17:26","slug":"why-do-christians-proselytize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Christians Bother to Proselytize?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that Christians who proselytize are actually making a case against their position. Their claim is that their deity of choice is all-powerful and wants everyone to worship him but can\u2019t seem to convince people on his own. God seems to need the Christian to proselytize.<\/p>\n<p>Why would such an all-powerful deity need people to tell other people about him? Can\u2019t God let people know he exists by himself? Instead of just writing a poorly written bronze-aged book and expecting everyone to believe all the magic and make-believe sounding stuff, couldn\u2019t this all-powerful God just implant the knowledge in our brains?<\/p>\n<p>The very fact that God didn\u2019t implant the knowledge of his existence into everyone\u2019s brain and therefore needs Christians to run around the planet telling everyone about barbaric blood sacrifice of God\u2019s son Jesus is evidence against his existence or at least against his all-powerful abilities.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that an all-powerful god wouldn\u2019t need Christians to spread his message. He would be all-powerful enough to get his message across to everyone himself. Sadly, this all-powerful god can\u2019t even get his message accurately to all Christians let alone all the people of the Earth. So many Christians have so many differing interpretations of God\u2019s infallible divine will that one has to wonder why God doesn\u2019t set the record straight about all this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>God wouldn\u2019t need to use any booming voice from the sky and he certainly wouldn\u2019t need a burning bush. He\u2019s God, right? Can\u2019t he just \u201cmake it known\u201d to everyone on Earth at once what his divine will actually is. Instead, he seems to tell different people different things. He told George W. Bush that war was good and told the Pope that war was bad. He told James Dobson that gays were evil shouldn\u2019t be allowed to marry and told Jim Wallis that gays were evil but should marry. He even apparently told Rick Warren that gays should be killed and then told him that he was just joking around.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that if Christians really had faith in their deity they would shut up and let God do his own dirty work. If God wants someone converted to the correct version of Christianity so that they could spend eternity with God, God will make that happen. 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