Inroads are created by open minds.

Will you please send this to her? Thank you.

Was your friend a scientist who happened to be a Christian or a follower of Mary Baker Eddy ie. a "Christian Scientist"

I cannot see the logical argument for hell. It is far too childish. And if she is right, you'd be going there anyway as part of god's plan.

The proselytizers are abundant out there. Another reason I am hiding.

My only question during the conversation was about Judaism. Evangelical Christians seem very supportive of Israel so I asked her whether Jews were going to all go to hell since they did not believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God. She informed me that most Jews now did believe that Christ was the son of God and those that didn't believed he was a prophet. I did not pursue whether the ones that believed he was a prophet were going to hell or not. Especially since she claimed that most or rather the majority believed he was the son of God. Google tells me only one fifth do.

Thanks for posting that Lorajay, a stark reminder of why the world needs more well mannered atheist objective thinkers and less fools who think that "believing" is seeing and not the total reverse!

She would not have liked me at all. You did well, but I would have told her of the hell that started out as your grave, went into being the dump outside the city where the trash is burned, then ended up as a place where you are bodily burned and tortured forever and ever. The big difference being that when you get to this stage you have no body. Some imaginary and invisible part of you burns in a location you are not aware of. This seems totally on par for your imaginary and invisible god. The evolution of hell came about over many years and got to this stage some 300 plus years after the time of Jesus when the bible as we know it today first came into existence.

There is no discussion here. No facts to try and enter into what I have already said. You learned from your preacher and your bible and you cannot prove anything using the bible. It does not and cannot prove itself.

If you're going to hell, you might as well get a free lunch out of it.

Good on you, giving her no grounds to criticize your manners or behavior!

Usually the only time I bite my tongue, is when I’m eating chicken wings?!
Thoughts & Prayers that your tongue heals quickly!!

If you never tell someone like this "No," or "I'm not interested," etc., they never learn to mind their own business and STFU What was she doing eavesdropping on your conversation? That's amazingly rude and intrusive on her part.

Thankfully, I have somehow avoided any conversation about religion for decades. LOL except here. I don't wear my atheism on my sleeve. Yes, we have many churches on my island (too many), but the subject matter apparently stays within those hallowed halls. Maybe, its because living in the Keys the two main topics are fishing & drinking.

Religious nonsense is a terrible waste of time and energy. Let her pay for your meal.

You paid too much... If she's going to tell you you're going to hell, you should be able to tell her that her beliefs are ugly myths.

I'll let a motherfucker tell me I'm going to hell the entire time I'm eating some LaCasita they're paying for!! Where can I get in on this action?

Good for you Larajay. I'm not sure I could have managed your polite restraint. But I think it was the right thing to do. Often, organized religion, especially in the form of missionaries, seems so intrusive and arrogant that I want to scream at these people. But as long as they are not rude, I think polite discourse is good for both of us.

Anytime a stranger offers you something for free they are going to try to sell you something. It is called marketing.

Yes, you definitely earned the free lunch, though your lunch would have been free with or without the crazy stranger. There must be something about me that says "don't bother and piss off" because I don't think anyone, friend or stranger, has tried to force their religion on me like that. I wouldn't mind a free lunch every now and then in exchange for listening to a few minutes of nonsense! Lol