11. "Because I'm a humanist, and he's human." In response to In response to 8
I think there's some knee-jerk assumptions of malice on my part that aren't present.
The discussion was a bit more detailed and I gave the gist. I've been a Christian and I've been down that road, and sometimes you need a little guidance to course correct.
Body language, vocal tone, etc aren't ging to translate, and guys like legs absoluately won't even entertain the notion that, when I said "so no witnessing if I don't have money?", I was smiling and laughing.
Or that the reason I told him to stick with that ministry if that's what he thinks he needs to stay clean was because I had just told him I was an atheist and gave a couple reasons why... but didn't want to him to think I was trying to deconvert him.
So there are some things that won't necessarily translate in my retelling of the exchange.
So I didn't just end it there and then because I had the choice to give him food for thought regarding the way he's repping that ministry, or let him keep doing it in a way that looks really bad.
I made what I think was the more empathetic choice.