You never had a personal relationship with jesus!
Me your humble athiest:I am an athiest, I use to believe in Jesus, but that is silly because, imaginary gods aren't real.
Righteous Dude:Jesus loves you, when you say that you use to believe in Jesus, you were probably just going thru the motions, did you have a personal relationship with jesus?
Me your humble athiest:Yes, but I came to realize that my relationship was imaginary.
Righteous Dude: If you had a real personal relationship yada yada yada
Me your humble athiest:Told him my life story....reasons why I believed...how I came to realize that fear makes us create a lot of imaginary gods and monsters, and that the only real monsters are you and I, and that an imaginary god isn't going to do anything about that...etc.
Righteous Dude:I dont think you had a personal...........yada yada yada
Any good responses?
Righteous Dude:Jesus loves you, when you say that you use to believe in Jesus, you were probably just going thru the motions, did you have a personal relationship with jesus?
Me your humble athiest:Yes, but I came to realize that my relationship was imaginary.
Righteous Dude: If you had a real personal relationship yada yada yada
Me your humble athiest:Told him my life story....reasons why I believed...how I came to realize that fear makes us create a lot of imaginary gods and monsters, and that the only real monsters are you and I, and that an imaginary god isn't going to do anything about that...etc.
Righteous Dude:I dont think you had a personal...........yada yada yada
Any good responses?
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Permalink Reply by Nelson on -
it's a no true scotsman logical fallacy. he's seeking to reject the idea that a person can come to atheism through critical thinking, reason, and logic by saying that you were never a true christian in the first place- essentially, no true christian would leave the faith so you must not have been a true christian. in so doing he has redefined being a true christian as one who never leaves the christian faith. so any person who has left the christian faith wasn't a true christian.
there's no response because it's a fallacy. no matter what you say about your former faith he'll just move the goal posts and say that you didn't have an actual personal relationship with jesus, you weren't a true christian. it's bullshit posturing.
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Permalink Reply by Kirk Holden on -
This has been officially renamed the "no true Republican" fallacy from the claim that George W. Bush could not have raised the deficit, increased Medicare spending, et al. while at the same time being "a true Republican".
Although he did have a personal relationship with cocaine, Jesus, failure in the oil business...
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Permalink Reply by Rodrica Davis on -
Completely agree.
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Permalink Reply by MightyMateo on -
Righteous Dude:Jesus loves you, when you say that you use to believe in Jesus, you were probably just going thru the motions, did you have a personal relationship with jesus?
Smart ass me: Well, supposedly Jesus watched me masturbate regularly for years and that's pretty personal if you ask me. I finally got tired of constantly apologizing. :p
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Permalink Reply by Nelson on
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you didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus because all he did was watch you masturbate. if you had had a personal relationship with him he would have offered to tug it for you.
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Permalink Reply by MightyMateo on
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Yeah, WTF Jesus?!
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Permalink Reply by Raymond Will on -
LOL ROLF
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Permalink Reply by the BEattitude on -
Most relationships involve more than a one way discussion. A warm feeling in your tummy doesn't equate to "god's presence".
If god exists and wants a relationship with us, he wouldn't be so good at being invisible, not answering prayers, allowing bad things to happen to good people and permitting Christians to do evil things in his name.
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Permalink Reply by Aric on -
You're exactly right. However, most Christians would argue that the reason god is invisible, doesn't answer prayers, allows bad things to happen, and permits Christian to do evil things is because he works in mysterious ways that we couldn't possibly understand. Of course, "God works in mysterious ways." is just bullshit for "I don't know".
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