Really enjoyed this lecture.

On my last shopping trip, I was "acosted" by those godbotherers who hang out in parking lots and shopping centers. It was an invite to one of their church events. I chatted with him while I loaded my groceries. I shared up front I was an atheist. He listened politely and I covered quite a bit of ground on my worldview (I bought a lot of stuff).

He was a well-groomed 30-something latino with a couple of neck tattoos. Looked like pretty much any suburban dad (his young daughter walked over the check on him a few times, maybe 7 or 8 years old). It was a pleasant conversation, but I could tell he was listening for an opening. At some point as I was saying I thought that claims of revealed knowledge were nonsense, because no one knows, he said, "Aha! You do believe because you said nobody knows." It was a bit of s stretch on his part, but it was time to leave.

I like how it surprises people for someone to share their godlessness when it comes up, and that we are generally pretty well versed in religious apologetics. He repeated the invite, but I told him I don't attend such gatherings because I wouldn't want to make anyone there uncomfortable by my rejecting their faith view as relevant to my own life. Earlier he alluded to how God turned his life around, and he looked in a good place currently so I wished him and his family well.

Encounters like that are probably why the Jehovah's Witnesses no longer come to my door.