I have a standard response when people mention going to any church which is: There are 3 reasons I will go into a church - hatches, matches and dispatches. I said this to someone last week, they had never heard of it put this way, they thought it was very catchy!

It wasn't a date, but in jr high, an acquaintance asked me if I wanted to hang out and eat pizza and watch a movie. I said sure! She goes, cool, it's at my church! Internally I was like ...shit. I was 13 and had never bought into the religious thing. We were a secular family. But I was too polite to back out and couldn't think of a good excuse so I went. Just... wow... It was in the basement which I guess was supposed to be the cool kid area. The movie was horrifically bad. It was a bunch of teenagers out joyriding and having fun and they were just SUCH good friends but then they get into an accident, oh no! They all die and end up in this elevator. Once they've figured out they're dead, the sole Christian of the bunch tells all his friends they are going to hell because they didn't accept Jesus before they died. "But we are good people!" They cry, and he's like sorry. Even at that age, I was like this is bullllllllllllllshit! I was a little more discerning about what sort of invitations I accepted after that.

Shoulda quoted some Shawshank redemption to em when they tried connecting geology to the rapture.

Oh you’re looking for your way out, aren’t we all? Geology is the study of pressure, and time. That’s all it takes really... pressure... and time. That, and a big goddamned poster. Never mind the patience of Job, you’re right I can’t wait til this failed experiment ends either. Isn’t gods creation just horrible? Burn it all I say. By the way I wish you sinners would quit trying to predict the apocalypse. Didn’t Jesus tell you no man would know the hour? Quit trying to make a liar out of Jesus you heathens. Every time you get hip to his plans he has to postpone the trip. WHY DO YOU HATE JESUS!?!?

...I don’t think you’d have to worry about being invited back ? but who knows they might see your point and make you their new prophet.

Oh yes... I've had several women try to get me to attend church with them and I simply won't do it anymore.

I did it once and she regretted it as I shredded her pastor and her church with every hypocritical thing he said and did.

Very dishonest behaviour though isn't it? If that was her motivation all along. She might go to hell..... ?

No, the last time I was asked on a date she said it would cost me $50.

NO, and I would have politely excused myself and LEFT the moment I realized what was happening, then never contacted that person again.

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Yes, it got to the point where I took atheist off my dating profile and replaced it with agnostic. I got people quoting bible verses to me all the time before. Agnostic doesn't provoke such a visceral response.

I never had the displeasure of being deceived like that, but then again, at that point in my life I didn't have much social life outside of church anyway.

Many fundamentalists truly aren't interested in knowing anyone apart from church-approved activities. It is possible that this was a desperate and naive attempt to pull someone she actually was interested in, into her orbit. Perhaps she nursed a fantasy that you would be impressed. I would prefer to think that, than to think the (entirely possible) scenario that it was just a way to use the promise of boy-friendship as a proselytization device. Worse case scenario for her, a brief flirt with a "bad boy" -- best case scenario, a little more variety in the pool of possible BFs within her church. My guess is, it probably wasn't quite that cynical. But you never know.

Was invited to a bible study with a gals husband and some other guys. Bible study is a place one person tells you how to interpret the lies, myths, fables, and legends in the of fictional short stories.

I had a guy waxed on about spirituality and finding good in the world. Then look at me and tell me I was spiritually deficient. So I wouldn't know what he was talking about.

Does that count?

That suuuucks! I’d have gone out of my way to find her afterward and asked her if trading sex for souls is really acceptable in her god's eyes..
Now, by no means am I one of those people that expects sex on the first date -or any particular date for that matter- but this is so emotionally manipulative that I'd have no problem hitting back below the belt.

I guess my convictions have been always so strong that no one ever tried, ask me out let alone try to convert me. At certain point in my life I decided to stay away from all that since it felt like I was the one doing the convincing so they will question their beliefs, however that's not my job by any means

Patience of Job comes to mind. Lol

Is 'ahhh h*ll no' an appropriate answer. But I am very impressed with your ability to hang in there.

I've never had anyone try that, but that would seem so surreal to me lol

The amount of delusion and naivete there is unnerving. I might have been concerned on if I was going to make it out of there alive lol

Well, as a young teen, I remember following a fluffy pink sweater around to several different churches until my testosterone tolerance levels built up. Does that count?

I live in the heart of Mormondom so that sort of thing is common. I expect to consistently deal with fake friendships that go south the moment they realize I'm not Mormon and they can't convert me. Dating to convert is a well known mode of operation. Fun times.

I once attended a couple of chanting sessions with a young lady decades ago when I was still in college, you know - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. But that was purely my accommodation in pursuit of that Buddhist honey, not a trap. And I came up empty. Ah well.

Wow...what a bait and switch!

Stay away from that one.

I commend you showing such restraint. I think she wanted to convert you, but probably found you attractive despite your lack of faith, or she wouldn’t have asked you on the date in the first place. I think I would have bailed out earlier or losing my patience at their ignorance stormed out later!