Guy walks up to me while I'm catching up on Homestuck before class. At first I was like, "What the **** is this guy doing here?" Then he starts talking about the power of Jesus. Consider griefing and trolling. Decide not to give the guy a hard time. After talking about Lazarus and the Crucifixion he goes like, "Wanna study God?" I ponder how to respond, "Nah, that sounds like effort." He looks totally nonplussed for a second. The goes, "But you don't have time." That seems odd so I say, "Why? How do you know?" Goes on about knowing and not knowing for a while and then pretty much just asks me to convert and find the light of God again. "Nah, I'm good." He gives up. I realize I just wasted fifteen minutes. Godammit.
You know who I hate more than these? Strangers who talk to you about the weather and then school and you have damn genuine good conversation until all of a sudden "So...have you accepted Jesus Christ as your savior?" MOTHER****ER, WE WERE HAVING A GOOD CONVERSATION AND YOU RUIN IT? YOU WERE JUST USING SMALL TALK JUST TO ASK THIS, WEREN'T YOU? YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN HOW I'M STUDYING OR THAT IT'S FINALLY NOT RAINING. Or when we're playing Catchphrase and all of a sudden Bueno's friend: "Uh...OH! WE SUPPOSEDLY CAME FROM THESE." Bueno's other friend: "Monkeys!" Bueno: "WAIT A MINUTE! What do you mean 'supposedly?' and we did not come from monkeys." ...that was a game night ruined.
I myself being a christian must say most of the ones who try to go out and convert people are really bad at it. Unless someone specifically asks me I'm not gonna be like "OPEN WIDE SO I CAN SHOVE JESUS DOWN YOUR THROAT AND INTO YOUR SOUUUULLLL" Shits annoying yo. And they have no tact either. They're just like "Hey that bagel you're eating looks good, so you wanna give your soul to Jesus?"
I openly laugh, or better yet, smirk. On a particularly clever evening I will tell him that I am interested and that we can exchange emails about it later.
And then you debunk their beliefs, don't you? Sinister. People shoving their beliefs down others' throat, and they don't even realise that there are far more effective ways of convincing others otherwise. It activates a gag reflex, most will not listen to such blabbering... they do it for their own benefit, probably, if they did it for us then they would take notice of our reflexes. If only they would pay attention, for once...
Or if I were feeling particularly cruel, I would do nothing but explain that I did it just to make them feel accomplished and then crush their hopes later.
I once got handed a leaflet at my university that invited me to some Christian event.. I mocked it openly and then threw it away. The next day, some other people were handing out the same leaflet and among them was one of my best friends. ;__; I felt immediate shame.
