It's kind of funny. For a while these guys were going along unmolested, but finally people have been speaking out and arguing. I'm sick of this. So tell me: at your colleges/academic fora do you see this hiarious shit going down? It's pretty fucking funny. It just makes it hard to study.

Ok so I've learned a lesson today. Don't try and break up a futile fight between evangelicals and skeptics. It just makes the evangelicals think you want to be saved. And then they'll talk to you for a while. Which isn't that bad, it just wastes your time :-/

Ok so I've learned a lesson today. Don't try and break up a futile fight between evangelicals and skeptics.:-/

It's like getting trapped between a rock and a hard place, isn't it?

;)

Public humiliation of evangelicals is far from futile.

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agreed.

This past Halloween some church group went and picketed the local college telling all the kids wearing costumes they were going to hell for 'celebrating a pagan holiday'.

There were some fundamentalist preachers at my campus last year. I stood in the crowd with my Tanach (essentially the Torah) and a few other sources shutting them down relatively frequently, but mainly just listened. It was interesting, and they were actually pretty nice guys. If you want to have an actual conversation with these people you MUST get away from the crowd though, I went to lunch with one of the guys and a few of the more interesting crowdfolk, it was...interesting to say the least, but he was a nice guy.

Just don't make eye contact....

The clashes between the religious and the not-so-religious on campus reached a peak halfway through this year. It was started up by billboards and chalkings asking 'Has God failed us?' 'Has God failed the Gays?', etc. Contrary to appearances, it was actually stared up by the Christian Union.

They caught me coming out of the food court one time and tried to get me to fill out one of their polls. It ended up with both me and the questioner getting very frustrated at each other. I thought that they were being too vague; they thought that I was being a difficult bitch. That and I don't have much time for most of the clubs and societies pushing an agenda on campus - you hear the same old rhetoric being spewed out by eager young things over and over. (And these guys are as bad as the socialists.)

Their official website is here, which shows their polls - http://www.hasgodfailedus.com/

I also attended the final debate, but I left before the end due to class. So I have no results for you

My school has group called, I shit you not, the "Campus Crusade for Christ".

Last year they had not Kent Hovind, but his son come to speak his usual bullshit. Unfortunately, the lecture was discovered by the campus atheist group, and we crashed it. He was thoroughly pwnt.

This year they ran a 3-parter series of heavy handed "debates" with the intent of getting people in the sciences to "come out of the closet" and believe in God. They were supposed to have a debate with a skeptic and a True Christian(TM), but none would talk to them among the faculty. So...The Christian debated himself. He basically talked about how Richard Dawkins is a great prawn. A great sexy prawn that fills his God-loving heart with fear.

The second debate was between a Muslim and a True Christian(TM) about the nature of Jesus. I didn't go, but apparently the Christian, in the true spirit of JC, made some really offhand racist remarks in his "rebuttal".

I think the third debate also ended up being a lecture. I think it was called "God gives life meaning. Accept Jesus now - don't be a faggot".

Either way, this group sucks hardcore. They harass students constantly, and God forbid if you ever sign one of their surveys. They will track your student ID down in the system to "share Jesus' love with you".

I havn't had a run in with anyone preaching Christian babble since I've become heathen, which is about a year.

Lucky for them. I've grown even more intolerable than when I was just Atheist.

Lawl, they're a lot easier to avoid when you don't live on campus and are ONLY there during your classes. I don't have time to waste on pointless bullshit like that.

It's a shame these groups don't troll the corporate circuit. It sure would break up the monotony of the day and make for a more animated lunch hour.

If you argue with evangelicals, it increases their feeling that what they are saying is important when it's not. I've found the response that most annoys them is to tell them you're not interested in trivial falsities and then to go about your business.

If you argue with evangelicals, it increases their feeling that what they are saying is important when it's not. I've found the response that most annoys them is to tell them you're not interested in trivial falsities and then to go about your business.

+1

This is very true....not that I practice it much, I find my general asshole nature interferes with it, but thanks for the reminder of how to annoy them the most. Seriously, I nearly forgot.

My school has group called, I shit you not, the "Campus Crusade for Christ".

Is this up in Canada? Because I know we have that here in the states. It's a national thing. They have it at my campus too and they seem generally worthless. You only see or hear from them about twice a year. They even piss off other Christians on my campus, so maybe that's why they don't show up that often.

They have a website. I checked it out one day out of curiosity and boredom. Don't bother looking at in, there aren't that many lulz there, disappointingly.