How would you convert a Christian?

Education and rowing intellect is what converts the most usually in the early teens!

Acceptance of a supernatural claim tends to promote cooperative social relationships. This communication demonstrates a willingness to accept, without skepticism, the influence of the speaker in a way similar to a child's acceptance of the influence of a parent. By encouraging this kind of behavior where the most intense social relationships occur it facilitates the lack of skepticism and deters more open minded thinking.

They are christian, Muslim or the other religions depending where they were born simply because they were indoctrinated by their parents as very young children. They will go on to indoctrinate their own children and those will go on to indoctrinate their grandchildren!

Atheists have the intellect to see through the conditioning and escape into the real world!

Agnostics have the intellect to see through the conditioning but lack the courage to throw of the conditioning entirely.

Sadly Christians, muslims and others are still held firmly prisoner by the self perpetuating brainwashing!

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"How would you convert a Christian?"

I wouldn't. I'm the type of person that believes that people need to believe what they believe, because they are searching for 'something'.

If a christian doesn't want to stay a christian anymore, then they can make that decision for themselves. Same goes for every theist and atheist out there.

Some Christians would be hard to convince, especially fundamentalists. I used to be a Christian, but I saw the light and I am now very inclined towards Zarathushtrianism.

Just as I would convince any other religion or Atheists, that they are wrong...provide the evidence, and let them decide. You can lead a man to church, but you can't make him believe.

There are die hards out there, that will defy the devil himself, just to stay true to their beliefs...even when their belief is proven wrong.

When someone shows me the proof....I too, am a die hard....I may not choose to acknowledge it.

Ok. So God makes man and tells him everything is fine, as long as they don't eat the fruit of one particular tree.

But man does so, because a snake got involved, and God's been pissed off ever since and that's the cause of all our problems.

But then God comes up with a clever plan: He'll send his son down to earth and he'll get nailed to a piece of wood in your place (because that's really what you deserve for having had an ancestor who ate a fruit he was told not to). But since he was nailed to a piece of wood, now you're fine, as long as you acknowledge that's why he was nailed to a piece of wood.

Any problems with this? Any problem at all?

whats right or wrong to a christian is whatever pleases him/her aesthetically. fact and evidence are of little consideration. because those are the very things they are attempting to escape through christian philosophy

Your best bet is to call in the EMTs before you start.

Guaran-darn-tee ya, I will be laughing so hard at your efforts that I pass out.