Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
I'm sure it's not normal for a grown adult to spend year on year promoting fairy stories, but if that continues to be his raison d'être in 2025 then at least it keeps him off the streets.
The strange thing is that he mentioned about a typo (my accidentally missing two words out) of mine possibly being down to my drinking, which is just nasty and baseless - and, once again, not exactly Christian.
He often ascribes views to me that I have never expressed and makes all sort of false assumptions, which represents dishonesty or stupidity.
Whenever I bring up valid points that are contained within his chosen tome but which contradict so-called Christian morals he seems to ignore them time and time again.
If I make a comment about Christianity representing the minority of religious believers in the world in general he comes up with an anecdotal and irrelevant response about some Welsh people converting in 1904 etc. Pretty weak stuff.
He doesn't seem to realise that most intelligent people have no vested interest in believing in something that is untrue or disbelieving that which is untrue - and will amend their views should our knowledge change. He may be dogmatic that the Bible stories are true but doesn't realise that, for most people on the planet, evidence supporting them are not sufficient. Hoping that I am not misreprenting him, he seems to consider atheists as having their own god, being influenced/controlled by Satan, being anti-Christ and, it seems to me, having a religion of their own. This is a typical case of mirroring, of course.
If Jesus appeared tomorrow many of us would review our positions immediately subject to the nature and reliability of the evidence of his presence - but reviewing of that nature is seemingly not something truthpaste is capable of. He will go to grave believing literally what was described in the Pentateuch, despite there being no evidence for such wondrous stories of talking animals, the creation of the universe, virgin birth, being raised from the dead etc.
One side of the divide requires evidence and the other not. By just hammering away posting Bible extracts on here I can't imagine that he is making much of an impact on here that he may hope for.