Why are American Christians underhanded?

[Barzoni1010]

I've noticed that American Christians will do this thing where they'll hand you a coupon book or a fashion magazine, but once you open it, it's actually a book about Jesus and how you need to be saved and salvation, etc.

I've also had co-workers start a conversation with me under the guise of sports or something, and then they'll randomly break into how I need to accept Jesus into my life and how I'm living a life of sin.

This is not some uncommon thing, I run into it maybe every 2 months or so.

Now I'm someone very open to and interested in religion, so I wouldn't mind someone telling me about these things. But what bothers me is just the underhanded way they do it, why would you try and trick someone into reading or hearing about your religion? Christianity is not some obscure persecuted cult, if you want to tell someone about it you can do so in an open and direct way.

 

[Ronnie G]

OK, terrific!

 

[Andy Elliott]

That’s a boomer thing

 

[Turk February]

Because con artistry is how religions start in the first place. (Hot Reddit take, never forget our roots as a forum)

 

[The Shah of Iran]

Have you ever heard of a pedo that just went up to a kid in school going baws out for it like "wanna come over and fuck later"? No because they're faggots who have to have to hide behind "booze and candy but don't tell anybody". It's how churchgoers operate.

 

[soulbrotherman#1]

As an american whos never had this happen to himself or anyone he knows, this sounds like a homeless shelteree problem...

 

[SamcroJoeCumia]

Have you heard the good news?

 

[Lunkhead]

Fraudestants that are light on theology and heavy on multi-level-marketing sales techniques.

 

[chiquita banana]

Imagine thinking that it's not underhanded to post this and not say what your actual ideology is.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I keep getting a targeted ad on YouTube of some pleasant blonde girl asking if I'd like to receive a free gift in this weird fake bubbly tone. The free gift is The Book of Mormon. I have no interest in becoming a Mormon but I will say the Mormons I've known are all pretty well off and seem happy.

 

[The Shah of Iran]

Imagine thinking that it's not underhanded to post this and not say what your actual ideology is.

 

[captain_kamala]

I keep getting a targeted ad on YouTube of some pleasant blonde girl asking if I'd like to receive a free gift in this weird fake bubbly tone. The free gift is The Book of Mormon. I have no interest in becoming a Mormon but I will say the Mormons I've known are all pretty well off and seem happy.

I grew up around a lot of Mormons. They are normal, good people. I don't know why they have a reputation of being weirdos.

 

[Toast]

I grew up around a lot of Mormons. They are normal, good people. I don't know why they have a reputation of being weirdos.

because good and normal is weird.

 

[Gay Faggot.]

I grew up around a lot of Mormons. They are normal, good people. I don't know why they have a reputation of being weirdos.

Was the elderly white man shaving your pussy a Mormon?

 

[captain_kamala]

Was the elderly white man shaving your pussy a Mormon?

No

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

I grew up around a lot of Mormons. They are normal, good people. I don't know why they have a reputation of being weirdos.

I played a bunch of sports with one Mormon kid that I know of and he was hilarious. I never would've put it together but when someone told me his family was Mormon I was like "Yeah, I guess I've never heard him swear."

 

[Turk February]

I keep getting a targeted ad on YouTube of some pleasant blonde girl asking if I'd like to receive a free gift in this weird fake bubbly tone. The free gift is The Book of Mormon. I have no interest in becoming a Mormon but I will say the Mormons I've known are all pretty well off and seem happy.

I actually love watching videos by Mormons who have left the church. Their lives before leaving seem so insanely innocent and naive. The church keeps you at a child's innocence playing board games your whole life.

 

[Turk February]

There's kind of a dark side to it because every family has a child they completely neglect because they just don't fit in for some reason. They don't get invited to anything or are hidden when people come over. It's an interesting mortality.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

There's kind of a dark side to it because every family has a child they completely neglect because they just don't fit in for some reason. They don't get invited to anything or are hidden when people come over. It's an interesting mortality.

If the Libbys were Mormon which child would they lock away? Adam the retard or Bre the lesbian?

 

[Turk February]

If the Libbys were Mormon which child would they lock away? Adam the retard or Bre the lesbian?

Bre for sure. She would never get a dinner or anything.