Born again Christians preaching on our streets

John DoeReMi · 23-01-2019 02:44PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Great !
A thread where we can make fun out of Christians! Good thing it's not Muslim preachers on the streets, otherwise we would have to say how great and diverse it is and how anyone critical is a racist!

Actually the Muslims have a stand now outside the GPO.

Muckka · 23-01-2019 02:52PM

John DoeReMi wrote: »

Actually the Muslims have a stand now outside the GPO.

They've a stand in Galway too on shop street.

Funniest moment I can remember was when someone with one of those guy's who was wearing an atheist ireland t-shirt came over to talk to him.

The atheist guy's were looking for people to sign a petition about catholism and schools or something.
They all get along, same as the Christian guy Phillip in Galway, he goes to get coffee, then the Islamic guys watch his stand.
He brings back coffee for every one...

The banter and craic there is good sometimes.

eviltwin · 23-01-2019 02:54PM

John DoeReMi wrote: »

Actually the Muslims have a stand now outside the GPO.

At least they just stand there, they don't have a microphone shouting at people as they pass by

punisher5112 · 23-01-2019 02:54PM

There is a guy in work is one of these, he works, breaks but preaches or hands out leaflets and goes back working.

James Brown · 23-01-2019 02:55PM

Zendaya Cold Incense wrote: »

What's a born again Christian?

A person with mental issues far greater than that of the average God botherer.
The fact that we take any of these people seriously instead of sending them for counseling is the question.

punisher5112 · 23-01-2019 02:58PM

I use to hate when they would keep calling to a house I was renting.

I had no time for it and they really were annoying.

QuintusFabius · 23-01-2019 03:15PM

Muckka wrote: »

They've a stand in Galway too on shop street.

Funniest moment I can remember was when someone with one of those guy's who was wearing an atheist ireland t-shirt came over to talk to him.

The atheist guy's were looking for people to sign a petition about catholism and schools or something.
They all get along, same as the Christian guy Phillip in Galway, he goes to get coffee, then the Islamic guys watch his stand.
He brings back coffee for every one...

The banter and craic there is good sometimes.

Yes atheists have aligned themselves with Islamists - it's very worrying, their hatred for the catholic church is so savage they allign themselves with the most bigoted ideology on Earth.
Just have a look at the atheism forum - some lunatics over there.

QuintusFabius · 23-01-2019 03:17PM

eviltwin wrote: »

At least they just stand there, they don't have a microphone shouting at people as they pass by

Well , I saw one guy frothing at the mouth trying to convince some teenager that Islam was the only way.
Total fundamentalist.
The leftist progressive morons were looking on thinking how woke this is !
Even the gay lads - Turkeys voting for Christmas.

ohnonotgmail · 23-01-2019 03:22PM

Muckka wrote: »

They've a stand in Galway too on shop street.

Funniest moment I can remember was when someone with one of those guy's who was wearing an atheist ireland t-shirt came over to talk to him.

The atheist guy's were looking for people to sign a petition about catholism and schools or something.
They all get along, same as the Christian guy Phillip in Galway, he goes to get coffee, then the Islamic guys watch his stand.
He brings back coffee for every one...

The banter and craic there is good sometimes.

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Yes atheists have aligned themselves with Islamists - it's very worrying, their hatred for the catholic church is so savage they allign themselves with the most bigoted ideology on Earth.
Just have a look at the atheism forum - some lunatics over there.

Two groups of people being civil to each other. What has the world come to.

uck51js9zml2yt · 23-01-2019 03:22PM

kneemos wrote: »

The worst kind.

I would have said the only kind of Christian....the rest are just religious people. Like saying being born in McDonald's makes me a big Mac.

Saying that some of what goes on in the name of Christianity is embarrassing....and no I never struggled to find meaning to my life despite an earlier definition

QuintusFabius · 23-01-2019 03:28PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Two groups of people being civil to each other. What has the world come to.

Except that they aren't civil to Christians, they will just sneer at them ..

ohnonotgmail · 23-01-2019 03:32PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Except that they aren't civil to Christians, they will just sneer at them ..

hmmm

Muckka wrote: »

They've a stand in Galway too on shop street.

Funniest moment I can remember was when someone with one of those guy's who was wearing an atheist ireland t-shirt came over to talk to him.

The atheist guy's were looking for people to sign a petition about catholism and schools or something.
They all get along, same as the Christian guy Phillip in Galway, he goes to get coffee, then the Islamic guys watch his stand.
He brings back coffee for every one...

The banter and craic there is good sometimes.

Muckka · 23-01-2019 03:34PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Yes atheists have aligned themselves with Islamists - it's very worrying, their hatred for the catholic church is so savage they allign themselves with the most bigoted ideology on Earth.
Just have a look at the atheism forum - some lunatics over there.

I think they're talking about the school's having less influence from the Catholic church, nothing to do with ganging up on anyone.

23-01-2019 03:38PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Yes atheists have aligned themselves with Islamists - it's very worrying, their hatred for the catholic church is so savage they allign themselves with the most bigoted ideology on Earth.

To be accurate Atheist Ireland, not atheists in general, have aligned with the Evangelical Alliance, and specifically the Ahmadi Muslims - off the back of one _single issue_ related to the discrimination in school access for minorities.

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Except that they aren't civil to Christians, they will just sneer at them ..

Well as I just said when they united in this single issue - they united with an Islamic group _and_ a Christian group. So - yea not sure you are painting a good faith picture here of what has happened there.

Muckka · 23-01-2019 03:41PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Yes atheists have aligned themselves with Islamists - it's very worrying, their hatred for the catholic church is so savage they allign themselves with the most bigoted ideology on Earth.
Just have a look at the atheism forum - some lunatics over there.

There's lunatics everywhere.

I don't know any atheists who hate the Catholic church, but I suppose some are recovering from the damage the church did to people and society over the years.

Do you have something against atheists ?

Isn't love thy neighbour somewhere in the Catholic doctorine.

I don't know much about Christianity or Atheism myself.
I don't join their debate's or delve much into the whole God thing.

I know nothing about it,so I've no business going there.

Effects · 23-01-2019 03:47PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Except that they aren't civil to Christians, they will just sneer at them ..

You need to chill out a bit snowflake. You atheist bashing hipsters get wound up so easily.

Muckka · 23-01-2019 04:00PM

Effects wrote: »

You need to chill out a bit snowflake. You atheist bashing hipsters get wound up so easily.

Atheists don't bash hipster's

eviltwin · 23-01-2019 04:03PM

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Well , I saw one guy frothing at the mouth trying to convince some teenager that Islam was the only way.
Total fundamentalist.
The leftist progressive morons were looking on thinking how woke this is !
Even the gay lads - Turkeys voting for Christmas.

Who approached who I wonder?

I've had verbals with a few of them but it's always been instigated by me. Never had anyone try and coerce me into a conversion apart from the Scientology nutters.

granturismo · 23-01-2019 04:10PM

aziz wrote: »

I don't think this was mentioned
https://www.facebook.com/lee.keohan/posts/10216428637323571

This is how to deal with street preachers.

Earthsnotflat · 23-01-2019 04:10PM

In relation to what people say and claim about themselves and their faith there is no better method of discerning than " you will know them by their fruit". So anyone believing there's one good God who is love and in the same time doing something that is repulsive and evil, you know then, this is one rotten fruit, don't eat it

Buford T. Justice XIX · 23-01-2019 04:35PM

Deja Boo wrote: »

What is this "I found Jesus" bit? ......was He lost?

Have a loud neighbour who ends every sentence with "Praise the Lord!"
...all I can think is 'please do it elsewhere'

I was walking through Dublin city center with a friend and we were approached by one of those evangelical lads asking if we had found Jesus.

Yer man just replied 'Jaysus, I didn't even know he was missing' without missing a beat and stayed walking on:D

Berserker · 23-01-2019 05:04PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Which is fine! So long as he stops telling you about it Let the fekkor build a shrine to your eternal well being in his basement for all you care - once he keeps his gob shut about it

Kind of goes against the whole spreading the message idea though, doesn't it.

QuintusFabius wrote: »

Great !
A thread where we can make fun out of Christians! Good thing it's not Muslim preachers on the streets, otherwise we would have to say how great and diverse it is and how anyone critical is a racist!

Don't see many people making fun of Christians, apart from the odd ridiculous atheist remark, which is best ignored.

eviltwin wrote: »

Who approached who I wonder?

I've had verbals with a few of them but it's always been instigated by me. Never had anyone try and coerce me into a conversion apart from the Scientology nutters.

Nutters? Scientology is the fastest growing religion in Ireland and the world(*).

* If you use square footage of Ideal Org as the metric.

steddyeddy · 23-01-2019 05:05PM

The Late Late Show wrote: »

I notice in several cities of late these preacher types with microphones and a bible mixing typical Jesus loves you/be saved from sin with political and social issues. Typically, they would condemn the Irish government, Donald Trump, the Catholic Church and mix it up with Christ. Sometimes, they do busking as well as preaching. Who are they?

I find it fascinating that in America it's supposed Christians that are supporting Trump.

Berserker · 23-01-2019 05:14PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

I find it fascinating that in America it's supposed Christians that are supporting Trump.

They love him because he pretends to be a Christian. Mike Pence is a devout Christian. Also, Reagan made a promise to promote their values when he ran and they've sided with the Republican candidate ever since anyway. His pro-Israeli, anti-LGBT and anti-abortion stances would be a big winner with them also.

uck51js9zml2yt · 23-01-2019 07:12PM

Berserker wrote: »

They love him because he pretends to be a Christian. Mike Pence is a devout Christian. Also, Reagan made a promise to promote their values when he ran and they've sided with the Republican candidate ever since anyway. His pro-Israeli, anti-LGBT and anti-abortion stances would be a big winner with them also.

I don't think trump has ever pretended to be a Christian.

Why the American evangelicals love him is a mystery but then being American goes a long way to explaining it.

TheValeyard · 23-01-2019 07:30PM

Zendaya Cold Incense wrote: »

I don't think trump has ever pretended to be a Christian.

Why the American evangelicals love him is a mystery but then being American goes a long way to explaining it.

They love him because he wasnt Hillary Clinton.

American Pentecostals and Evangelicals have always been a strange lot.

DrPhilG · 23-01-2019 08:14PM

Zendaya Cold Incense wrote: »

I don't think trump has ever pretended to be a Christian.

He was asked what his favourite book was. He replied "the Bible". The interviewer asked what his favourite passage was, he quickly replied "all of it" to disguise the fact that he probably couldn't tell a Bible quote from a line in Lord of the Rings.

Berserker · 23-01-2019 10:50PM

Zendaya Cold Incense wrote: »

I don't think trump has ever pretended to be a Christian.

Really, what about 'I brought my bible' and 'In America we don't worship government, we worship God', speeches? He certainly pretended to be one during the campaign.

branie2 · 23-01-2019 11:19PM

And he obviously doesn't believe in love thy neighbour as thyself.

The Late Late Show · 24-01-2019 12:55AM

corner of hells wrote: »

Have you thought about asking them who they are ?

This might free up space in AH for our usual inane threads.

On a lighter note , I work with a born again Christian who gets prophetic dreams that she draws out the following morning with crayons

So far I can expect to be guided to safety by two ostriches and a giraffe/person according to her.

Less of the putdowns. I merely asked a bloody question, not accused this preacher of being right or wrong. This is the problem with this site, ain't it. Bullies and more bullies and no one can answer a freaking question!

Born again Christians preaching on our streets

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