Threats From Christians

When talking to non-believers and possible converts, Christians are ruthless.  They will stop at nothing to intimidate people.  Creating fear.  Using dependency as the key.

There was a song back in the 60’s that said pushers and preachers were just the same.  “They are both selling highs.”  That’s so close to reality, it isn’t funny.

Their highest card in their deck is the ‘death’ card.  They play that one when everything else has failed.  It’s intended to reach deeply into your psyche and bring the fear of death under their control because they promise eternal life after we slip the bonds of Earthly existence.  In my opinion, eternal existence groveling and scraping to a god is untenable.  There would be no free will and, after the first million years or so, the boredom would be torture.  Our Earthly behavior would never work in heaven.  Our conduct would have to highly modified to fit in there and we would no longer be the person we were on Earth.

The religious threat of eternal death means nothing to an atheist.  Of course, we all fear death.  It’s a universal fact in most living things with a functioning brain.  Even insects try to avoid death and humans are no different. 

Here’s the rub:  From conception, we are already going to die.  Thanks to SandyAtheist ‏@sandy1471  for this question: So the question to the theist is, why do you use death as a scare tactic when we were dying before we were born?

Every living thing on Earth will eventually die and, once you get past that fear, life can be so much more rewarding.  Every minute becomes precious instead of a practice run for eternity. 

When they try to intimidate you with this threat, tell them that you are getting the most from this one precious life right now.  Tell them that they are wasting that precious time in a lie.  Tell them that their efforts to gain eternal life have them in a prison with no hope of parole unless they reject the indoctrination.

Tell them to break free before it’s too late.  And, most of all, tell them you understand that they are weak and don’t have the courage to tell their god to go to hell.

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