Him: Jesus loves you.
Me: OK.
Him: No, really Jesus loves you.
Me: Really, that's OK. I am comfortable with that.
Him: Do you love him?
Me: No.
Him: You should. He loves you.
Me: That's nice. What would happen if I don't love him.
Him: Then you wont be saved.
Me: Would that be a bad thing?
Him: You would go to Hell.
Me: Would that be bad?
Him: You would suffer for an eternity.
Me: Hang on, let me get this straight. Jesus loves me?
Him: Uh-huh.
Me: But if I don't love him in return, this person who loves me will make me suffer forever?
Him: Yes...
Me: And how is that different to a guy who lusts after a girl in the neighbourhood and, when she wont return his love, kills her so nobody else can have her?
Him: Well...
Me: Sounds a bit warped to me.
(Scene fades...)
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4 comments:
You forgot to mention that this person who loves you died some 2000 years ago and thus doesn't even know you.
Ergo he can't love you on two counts:
1) He's dead, and
2) He can't have known you.
Sounds strange to me.
I can almost understand why people dreamed up this stuff 2000 years ago. What I can't understand is why people today don't think through such beliefs and see the ridiculous conclusions that they accept without thinking.
I have heard that the Bible is like an online software agreement. Most people don't read it; they just scroll to the end and click "I agree."
Good point.
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