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Question: Would you convert to Christianity for a million dollars?
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« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2021, 09:53:36 PM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.
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« Reply #26 on: September 24, 2021, 08:53:43 PM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.

Hang on. I need to set up a payment system that won't reveal my identity if I give it to you.
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« Reply #27 on: September 25, 2021, 09:03:06 AM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.

Hang on. I need to set up a payment system that won't reveal my identity if I give it to you.

What a cheapskate. 😀
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« Reply #28 on: September 25, 2021, 03:19:31 PM »

What do you mean by conversion. Do I have to truly in my heart accept God, or can I just pretend? How would anyone know what I truly believe?

How are we defining "convert to Christianity"? Do I need to just say that I'm a Christian? Start going to church every Sunday? Accept Jesus as my personal savior? Tell people that I accept Jesus as my personal savior?

I think my main reservations, unless we're talking about about some extreme form of Christianity, would be the fact that a big part of my identity is that I'm Jewish and not Christian, and also that I would feel bad about claiming to believe something that I don't. But a million dollars is hard to turn down.

Let's say you have to be baptized and formally join a church (it can be a liberal church obviously), and then attend church semi-regularly, not necessarily weekly but maybe something like twice a month on average.

OK, sure, no problem if I'm getting a million dollars out of it.
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« Reply #29 on: September 25, 2021, 07:34:55 PM »

If I'm already Christian, do I still get the money?
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« Reply #30 on: September 26, 2021, 08:06:03 PM »

     Already a Christian, but echoing others that a conversion for money is likely insincere and therefore worthless.
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« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2021, 05:46:50 AM »

I’d flip to Orthodox (or Orthodox to Catholic).
Protestantism is right out.
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« Reply #32 on: October 01, 2021, 05:08:00 PM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.

Hang on. I need to set up a payment system that won't reveal my identity if I give it to you.


Free market at work

Truly though as a Libertarian you should raise the price to $200
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« Reply #33 on: October 27, 2021, 06:04:38 AM »

No, I never would. I can’t trust a greedy pastor who basically has Trump’s policy positions and doesn’t care about poor people.
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« Reply #34 on: October 28, 2021, 04:07:01 PM »

     Already a Christian, but echoing others that a conversion for money is likely insincere and therefore worthless.

In this case it'd be worth a million bucks.
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« Reply #35 on: October 28, 2021, 04:29:48 PM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.

Hang on. I need to set up a payment system that won't reveal my identity if I give it to you.


Free market at work

Truly though as a Libertarian you should raise the price to $200


I was trying to make an offer that internet strangers would actually be tempted to take me up on. For the record, this offer is still open.
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« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2021, 10:52:54 AM »

No, I never would. I can’t trust a greedy pastor who basically has Trump’s policy positions and doesn’t care about poor people.

The cult of Evangelical Christianity, and especially the Republican version of it, isn't the only iteration of Christianity.
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« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2021, 11:40:39 AM »

No, I never would. I can’t trust a greedy pastor who basically has Trump’s policy positions and doesn’t care about poor people.
Good thing my church is nothing like that!
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« Reply #38 on: October 31, 2021, 08:03:11 AM »

For a measly million?  LOL.
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« Reply #39 on: October 31, 2021, 09:23:26 PM »

No, I never would. I can’t trust a greedy pastor who basically has Trump’s policy positions and doesn’t care about poor people.

The cult of Evangelical Christianity, and especially the Republican version of it, isn't the only iteration of Christianity.
Thankfully so. Imagine a guy with a mega church becoming a white Ayatollah Khomeini who wanted the Bible to be the basis of the legal system.
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« Reply #40 on: October 31, 2021, 09:23:42 PM »

No, I never would. I can’t trust a greedy pastor who basically has Trump’s policy positions and doesn’t care about poor people.
Good thing my church is nothing like that!
Exactly!!!
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« Reply #41 on: October 31, 2021, 10:30:53 PM »

Obviously. It'd be completely meaningless for me, and I'd continue believing what I want in my heart
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« Reply #42 on: November 04, 2021, 12:25:25 PM »

Yes. I’d take the million and run.
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« Reply #43 on: November 10, 2021, 05:16:24 AM »

I’m sure that this is a one way ticket to hell no matter who takes it. This converter is gonna need to spend a lot of time repenting.
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« Reply #44 on: November 21, 2021, 08:33:31 PM »

Easiest yes vote ever. I'll do it for $20 if you're willing to Venmo me, BRTD.

Ok-- $15, and I'll become a vocal and outspoken Atlas Christian. Final offer.

Give me your Venmo.

Hang on. I need to set up a payment system that won't reveal my identity if I give it to you.

Just do a good old bank transfer?
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« Reply #45 on: November 27, 2021, 02:07:49 PM »

It's the same God, Allah, Jehovah, Zeus, that we pray to even the non Christians like the Vikings had Odin whom was Jehovah, dies it really matter, no it doesn't what God you pray to, Normans pray to Joseph Smith whom was a prophet of God like Jesus and Allah and Moses
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« Reply #46 on: November 27, 2021, 02:53:09 PM »

It's the same God, Allah, Jehovah, Zeus, that we pray to even the non Christians like the Vikings had Odin whom was Jehovah, dies it really matter, no it doesn't what God you pray to, Normans pray to Joseph Smith whom was a prophet of God like Jesus and Allah and Moses

Your message of tolerance and coexistence between different faith traditions is a constant ray of hope in an otherwise dark and cruel world, OC.
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« Reply #47 on: December 05, 2021, 06:49:24 PM »

Would you?
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« Reply #48 on: December 06, 2021, 12:00:35 AM »

Quote from: The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That Which Is to Come
Even a babe in religion may answer ten thousand such questions. For if it be unlawful to follow Christ for loaves, as it is, John 6, how much more abominable is it to make of him and religion a stalking horse to get and enjoy the world. Nor do we find any other than heathens, hypocrites, devils and witches that are of this opinion.
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« Reply #49 on: December 10, 2021, 05:03:29 AM »

Everyone is either Muslim or Protestant, but Buddhist are neither and the Priesthood is having a problem with the Laity in Nicherin Shoshu Buddhist sect. Buddhist has taken a hit since the Pandemic ANYWAYs

The way the Chinese are trying to be imperial over Americans isn't helping Buddhist causes anyways, the height of Buddhist came in 2990s not now
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