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thucythucy

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14. I had a similar encounter years ago with a Jesus person

Fri Mar 29, 2024, 07:10 PM

Mar 29

while riding a bus across country.

The bus was packed, he was right next to me, and I couldn't avoid his preaching. Standard right wing Jesus stuff, heavy on the sin and damnation, nothing on feeding the poor, clothing the naked, visiting people in prison, welcoming the stranger, etc.

Luckily, I know quite a few Bible verses, dating back to childhood. I was able to rebut everything he said, citing chapter and verse.

It ended after he said, in frustration, "How do you know God hasn't sent me to you to show you the Truth?"

To which I answered, "How do you know God hasn't sent me to YOU to show you the error of your blasphemous ways?"

That shut him up for the rest of the trip. I often wonder if our encounter did him any good.

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I avoid conversations with MAGA, but this time [View all] kairos12 Mar 29 OP

Thank you for your service and your call out to the idiot you encountered. Deuxcents Mar 29 #1

Good on you! MOMFUDSKI Mar 29 #2

Excellent ☑️ Diamond_Dog Mar 29 #3

i was talking to a friend of mine and a neighbor would missquote the bible and id say where is that in the bible ? i got AllaN01Bear Mar 29 #4

I did that with an idiot who said that our government NanaCat Mar 29 #6

eggscllent. dont u just love it when they go sputter sputt sputt.? AllaN01Bear Mar 29 #8

I had a similar encounter years ago with a Jesus person thucythucy Mar 29 #14

Probably not but there is always hope but you definitely TheKentuckian Mar 29 #18

Getting off the bus the driver thucythucy Mar 30 #55

I doubt it. He does not, as they say, have a prayer. Aristus Mar 29 #20

I would have paid to see/hear you do that. 3catwoman3 Mar 29 #25

Classic shifting of the burden of proof Shermann Mar 30 #53

If the government were actually built on the bible genxlib Mar 30 #48

semantic point - cab67 Mar 30 #50

In the longer version of this rant, I do acknowledge that genxlib Mar 30 #54

Great bdamomma Mar 29 #24

Lol Demovictory9 Mar 29 #5

So perfectly beautiful!!!😂 Hope22 Mar 29 #7

Awesome! Chi67 Mar 29 #9

Perfect! Sucha NastyWoman Mar 29 #10

Well done, Ranger, well done. MLAA Mar 29 #11

Excellent! LoisB Mar 29 #12

Perfect response. 👍 dchill Mar 29 #13

Perfect! Evolve Dammit Mar 29 #15

Well done, Ranger! TomSlick Mar 29 #16

Sometimes I wish there were pay-per-view for MAGA encounters. Dem2theMax Mar 29 #17

Well done! Aristus Mar 29 #19

For sure. kairos12 Mar 29 #21

HO-AAAH AverageOldGuy Mar 29 #22

Don't know where you folks live, I'm in bright red southern Oregon, MerryBlooms Mar 29 #23

Yeah a lot of out of staters have the view that Oregon is very liberal captain queeg Mar 29 #26

Ashland isn't as liberal as folks would like to believe. MerryBlooms Mar 29 #28

Didn't think about Ashland but yeah I would have assumed it was pretty blue down there captain queeg Mar 29 #31

That is actually typical for most states lonely bird Mar 29 #33

I'm originally from Ohio. My old area seems very red. Lots of MAGA signs and such captain queeg Mar 29 #36

I am in Portage County lonely bird Mar 29 #39

I grew up mostly in Garrettsville. Went to KSU for a year captain queeg Mar 29 #40

I went to Hiram, lived in Garrettsville Easterncedar Mar 29 #42

It's still a quaint little town. It's managed capitalize on that captain queeg Mar 29 #43

Didn't hear about the fire. Easterncedar Mar 29 #45

Several years ago a fire pretty much swept one side of Main Street. captain queeg Mar 30 #46

We are in Shalersville lonely bird Mar 30 #49

Ah, The Brick! Good times were had Easterncedar Mar 30 #59

I see I'm not the only one who spent time at the Brick captain queeg Mar 30 #62

Epic Bravo.. Classic! Cha Mar 29 #27

Bravo!! The fact you were reading a book probably babylonsister Mar 29 #29

Well done, brother Aviation Pro Mar 29 #30

Good for you. badhair77 Mar 29 #32

I bet Cherokee100 Mar 29 #34

"We need to learn how to talk to these people." czarjak Mar 29 #35

I deal with them all the time at work and I am horribly outnumbered hydrolastic Mar 29 #37

BZ OldSWODog Mar 29 #38

No, I'm an Air Force Ranger, dumbass. Ligyron Mar 29 #41

MOST Rangers are Army, but, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 30 #52

The closest I got to hard corps COL Mustard Mar 30 #60

Had a similar situation the day after the Uvalde massacre. bluesbassman Mar 29 #44

I've used "what branch did you serve in?" to great effect! IrishAfricanAmerican Mar 30 #47

Yes! I was hit with that once. Grins Mar 30 #56

Offer him the chance to go to Alpha Male Boot Camp keithbvadu2 Mar 30 #51

Another one I get from the MAGA-idiots on guns. Grins Mar 30 #57

Nicely done, kairos12.. Permanut Mar 30 #58

I love it! yardwork Mar 30 #61

I'd say has was a gravy seal! Mr. Sparkle Mar 30 #63