Has anyone else gotten into a truly bizarre conversation with Christian believers? I'll start; in my trying-to-believe days, I was in a bible study class and someone made a joke about aliens; I asked if they'd treat them as children of god (I was curious! Don't judge me!????). Turns out that was not an acceptable topic, and I got a lot of strange looks. Anyone else ever feel ostracized for asking weird questions?
I don't think my questions are weird but I do get a kick out of asking questions I know they can't answer sensibly.
I never felt ostracized either; but I've always loved a good "discussion" and once at a party I caused a group of people to leave because I suggested that there was no real evidence that God was a "male". One of my arguments was that in the original language of the bible, the Holy trinity was referred to as God the Creator, The Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit. I suggested that God could be female, or something else entirely, and that if the bible told people we were made in God's image, it could be because the writers wanted to control the masses and so they decided to make God in the image of a human - something the uneducated could understand. I really pissed them off, so much that they could not hold their composure, especially when some other people at the party were laughing since they thought I was just doing it as a joke to get them riled. Well, maybe partly, but nothing I didn't really think at the time.
I asked a Jehovah's Witness that same question. He told me that there where no aliens, God made the universe and earth for our benifit only.
Yeah, isn't that strange? I mean - isn't god supposed to be the god of everything??
I'm a lateral thinker, so yes, I used to, until I learnt not to ask out aloud anything, unless I was sure I wouldn't be ridiculed. This would involve going through diferent scenarios, trying to second guess various reactions, etc. It's always a dilemma and stops me being who I am.
I know what you mean. The older I get, the more I speak up! I wish I'd have done that all along -
Not ostracized but I did have a very strange experience once. An older lady invited me to her art club. We met in a coffee shop after hours. The club consisted of three hours of 40ish women "testifying" about their addictions and how Jesus saved them. My favorite was the the wild eyed lady who gleefully told me how she was desperately addicted to pot and had prostituted herself to support her habit. Her pot habit...yeah.
Oh yeah - the "pot habit" ????