I was at work today. I work at a health food store in Eugene, Oregon. Most of our customers are non-religious or pagan but at the same time most also aren\'t hateful towards Christians and generally show some interest (I believe that is a good thing).
Well today a man came in who isn\'t well liked among most of our employees because he will try to talk someone\'s ear off. He was going on about how this is the year 666 and stuff about Isaac Newton and Ben Franklin that wasn\'t making sense. He came up to me at the checkout and was acting like I was in on what he was saying. He was going on about how the USA\'s founding fathers were all Christian which isn\'t really true and how this country has long been indoctrinated by it or something along those lines. At this point I told him that I am a Christian and he started insulting me for it, saying how the Bible says God loves me more than God loves him and other things. I asked him where it says that and he started mocking me. I told him I don\'t appreciate him mocking my faith and that he had a severe misunderstanding of Christianity but he wasn\'t interested in hearing any of it. He then went on to blame the war in Iraq and every other war on Christianity.
It ended when I went on the subject of logical fallacies and pointed out where his arguments were totally ridiculous. This is the first time I\'ve been confronted like this.
I\'m hoping that I stayed calm and not insulting and that maybe he got a new look at Christianity. I know for myself it took a lot of undoing before I got over all the Christians who assailed me in similar ways before I was baptized.
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