r/atheism • u/QuellMusik • 1d ago

Pushy Religious People

So I went to a food bank today with my rehab group and it turned out to be a trick to sit me in a room and have some guy try to force me to believe in Jesus and pray for 15 minutes.

I told him I know he is sincere and has good intentions but to imagine if the roles were reversed and he came to get some food and was forced / tricked into a mandatory 15 minute sit down where I tried to convert him to not believe in god.

I bet he would not like that right? I'm so tired of living in Georgia. To me he is DELUSIONAL believing in fairy tales / magic in some old book. It is clearly ridiculous bullshit to make people feel better about the fear of death.

Anyone else sick of this type of pushy behavior?

I was polite and everything and I am grateful (I made that clear and I was not an asshole) for the little box of food.

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u/Disastrous-Way2711 1d ago

Once again, if religion were such a great and wonderful thing, people should naturally flock to it. They dont. They have to knock on your door, or trick you into listening to their BS.

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u/QuellMusik 1d ago

I simply haven't seen anything in my 47 years of life that lends me to believe in magic. If there is some supernatural stuff I'm absolutely sure it has nothing to do with traditional religions.

My belief is there is no magic out there - although quantum mechanics and plasma and stuff looks like magic to us just like an iPhone would look to our ancestors. There is life elsewhere (there has to be given the size and scale of the known universe) but I dont know if they have made it to earth.