Atheists or Agnostics turning to Christianity.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2005-05-31 09:30pm

HemlockGrey wrote:In fact, on the military bases here, the church is one of the centers of social life. Even the idiot wannabe ghetto junkie kids who smoke, do coke, make shitty rap music and get knocked up "believe in Jesus" because almost all of their friends and family members are involved in church activities.

In my experience, most "gangstas" are very religious even thought they do all that.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-05-31 09:32pm

Rappers are highly religious too, or at least they sure as hell seem that way when they win music awards.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-05-31 11:45pm

Darth Wong wrote:Rappers are highly religious too, or at least they sure as hell seem that way when they win music awards.

They're poorly-educated, and grew up impoverished. Statistically, of course they would all be religious.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-05-31 11:51pm

I thought they were apathetic. I just can't picture a rapper, who fucks fifty women a day, on TV, to be a fundie Christian.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-05-31 11:59pm

wolveraptor wrote:I thought they were apathetic. I just can't picture a rapper, who fucks fifty women a day, on TV, to be a fundie Christian.

Because... hypocrisy is not a fundy virtue?

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2005-06-01 12:02am

Petrosjko wrote:
wolveraptor wrote:I thought they were apathetic. I just can't picture a rapper, who fucks fifty women a day, on TV, to be a fundie Christian.
Because... hypocrisy is not a fundy virtue?

Plus, who do you think orders most of the adult videos in hotel rooms?

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » 2005-06-01 12:04am

It's not really a matter of peer pressure or of lack of intelligence, but usually by them wanting to find something. You see, it's usually that something happens to them that makes them want to convert to Christianity.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-01 12:08am

Castor Troy wrote:It's not really a matter of peer pressure or of lack of intelligence, but usually by them wanting to find something. You see, it's usually that something happens to them that makes them want to convert to Christianity.

Yeah, and that "something" is "wanting to score with a Christian chick"

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-01 02:41am

In my experience, religous people are either 1) indoctrinated from birth or 2) stupid. For the uber-religious, combine both. Who grows up without their mind broken by religious instruction and suddenly joins the church? Honestly.

LORDDOOMMASTER · Post by **LORDDOOMMASTER** » 2005-06-01 05:08am

mr friendly guy wrote:I had a friend who turned Christian. He told me he was a buddhist in high school, although I suspected he was more likely agnostic.

He converted after meeting a Christian girlfriend.

Similar experience here. I knew a guy (wasn't really a friend per se, more a guy I knew through other friends) in high school that used to claim to be an atheist. I knew pretty much all the agnostics and atheists in my high school simply because I was one of the most outspoken atheist and willing told everyone that I was. This guy used to say how he was an atheist every time I saw him. Then, one day, he showed up with some girl he met and all of a sudden, he was a big Christian. I knew she was pretty much a fundie, and apparantly for him a piece of ass (whether he was actually fucking her or not, I don't know, but I doubt it) was enough to make him "see the light."

He starts the typical religious BS about how God must exist and such, and I just laughed at him. He said something to me about being the big atheist with a big mouth and I responded "Well, at least when I fuck a girl, I don't end up changing what I believe because I got a piece of ass." I swear, the two of them turned so red I thought they were going to pass out right there.

That's the closest I can come to where I actually knew a professed atheist to turn to Christianity Alyeska. Didn't know him well enough to know if he was a big Christian before the high school stuff happened. But like a few others have said, I knew plenty of former Christians that had fallen away and ended up going back.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-06-01 01:41pm

Darth Wong wrote: Yeah, and that "something" is "wanting to score with a Christian chick"

Speaking from personal expierence, Super-Christian Fundie chicks can be super freaky! Along time ago I dated both A Baptist and a Jehovah's Witness. After we dated, the Jehovahs Witness girl went on to earn the nickname 'The Cum Dumpster'.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-06-01 01:50pm

I wasn't aware that fundies held such a large population of pieces of ass.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-06-01 07:27pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: Yeah, and that "something" is "wanting to score with a Christian chick"
Speaking from personal expierence, Super-Christian Fundie chicks can be super freaky! Along time ago I dated both A Baptist and a Jehovah's Witness. After we dated, the Jehovahs Witness girl went on to earn the nickname 'The Cum Dumpster'.

She couldn't have been that devout. And if her fellow JWs found out about this, they'd boot her ass out of the place.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-06-01 07:35pm

Darth Servo wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:
Darth Wong wrote: Yeah, and that "something" is "wanting to score with a Christian chick"
Speaking from personal expierence, Super-Christian Fundie chicks can be super freaky! Along time ago I dated both A Baptist and a Jehovah's Witness. After we dated, the Jehovahs Witness girl went on to earn the nickname 'The Cum Dumpster'.
She couldn't have been that devout. And if her fellow JWs found out about this, they'd boot her ass out of the place.

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eventually she was booted. on her 18th birthday no less. out on the streets by her parents. There was a time when i loved that girl... before she broke my heart. I still will never forgive the fucking worthless fuck jesus freak jehovahs for the mind fuck they layed on her.

Haruko · Post by **Haruko** » 2005-06-02 02:18am

Such a supposed Atheist to Christian conversion can be found at the site featuring the G. Zeinelde Jordan v. Temy R. Beal debate.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2005-06-02 10:36am

BringerOfLight wrote:Hey, I'll convert to Christianity if you give me a million dollars. Even $500,000 for that matter.

Ah, but you can't get the million dollars until you leave town...

Setzer · Post by **Setzer** » 2005-06-02 10:38am

Alyeska wrote:Here is something to consider. Many Christians believe being an Atheist means you lack morality and are capable of doing bad things. I wouldn't be surprised if some people use that as their definition of being Atheist and say they became Christian when they regained their morality.

To quote Guards! Guards!:

We never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2005-06-02 09:38pm

Darth Wong wrote:Yeah, and that "something" is "wanting to score with a Christian chick"

Raises hand. Guilty

She was hot.

Quite a few people seriously convert to be part of a community. You get to meet with people regularly, do things with them and have a few common rituals to bind you together. Nothing in the church I belonged to was as wierd as the SF club which probably explains why I tolerated the nuttiness for so long.