The bridge is out ahead. There are signs posted to warn you, but you're still driving toward disaster. If I?

I would completely ignore you because obviously, after seeing the warning signs, I'm driving towards the cliff on purpose.

But atheists don't even believe there IS a bridge since they haven't seen it yet with their own eyes...so why would they care if it is out? It doesn't matter if you've seen it and are telling them about it...or that there are signs that say it is there...or an old map that shows there is a bridge ahead. The have to see it for themselves...so they will keep driving and when they fall in the gap where the bridge used to be...they will say "told ya so" as they are falling.

Not at all.

But if I decide to drive on anyway, and you keep telling me over and over again, then you are harrassing me.

Tell me once, maybe twice, then forget about it. You've done your job. I'm an adult and live with the consequences of my decisions. Leave me alone after that.

Besides, to extend your analogy, I know of a bridge that can't be washed away: God's love for me. So while you're waving people down to give them your opinion about the collapsed "bridge" of evangelism, I'll already be on the other side of the ravine, waiting for you.

There is a great deal of difference between the obvious and the fictitious fairy story called religion.

The missing bridge would be a big clue as to your sincerity while the blatant lack of evidence for the sky fairy myth beggars belief.

Practicing Shaman.. quantum physics rocks.

No, but I would keep driving until I found the bridge, then take a different route.

This bridge only exists in the minds of those who believe in talking snakes.

I'm a Christian myself, but this has always struck me as a poor analogy regarding Hell, as well as for the need to proselytize. First, you have to produce proof of the existence of this bridge, and even further proof that there's something wrong with it. For two thousand years, people have been screaming that the bridge is out, but nobody's produced solid proof of it yet.

If you were arguing an invisible bridge and river lay ahead I would think your advice questionable.

i would still go to the bridge to make sure you were not delusional.

it would be hard not to tell the bridge was out when driving up to it.

Honey, my house isn't burning, the bridge is fine. Has it ever occurred to you that you're imagining these things?