There’s a Christian Evangelist that likes to frequent a high foot-traffic corner near my workplace. He’s pretty stupid, and there was at one time a group of atheists who used to sprinkle themselves among his listeners to question his belief system. He would flounder, and then fall back on the reliable, “We can’t understand omnipotence” or whatever cover-all rot he chose to expound.
Well, he’s set up again today. I like to make a point of walking directly through his presentation, as I have as much a right to do that as he has a right to try and increase the size of the herd. Baa.
Typically he’ll stop the presentation and offer me some materials, or invite me to join the crowd. If I’m having a good day, I’ll politely tell him to, “Fuck off.” If I’m having a bad day, I’ll tell him, “You, your imaginary friend, and the horse you rode in on can go fuck yourselves.”
Today he had already sunk to a new low. He had recruited about half a dozen children, who looked to be between the ages of 7 and 9, to hand out his ridiculous literature, and to beckon people to join the “conversation.” What the fuck is he doing involving children in his ridiculous evangelism? Is he trying to keep people from calling him an asshat? Does he think people may consider a life with Christ because some children thought Jesus was a cool enough dude?
Or is he, like all other radical, braindead evangelicals, trying to hamstring the voices of reason by creating a societal roadblock? Don’t like Jesus? Why, then you’re an anti Semite! Don’t want to listen to my propaganda today? Well, you must hate children.
Asshole.
