I love this quote from the beginning of Chapter 8 (“What’s wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?”) of Dawkin’s book:
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man – living in the sky – who watched everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time … But He loves you! (GEORGE CARLIN)
It reminds me a bit of the google video I managed to download a while ago (can’t find or remember the link, but if anyone out there can please let me know). Two evangelists dressed in black knock at a third man’s door. In an effort to convert him, the two evangelists tell him something like: “Kiss Hanks *** and he’ll give you $1000 when you leave town. Don’t kiss Hank’s *** and he’ll kick the **** out of you!”
How can anyone think that the Carlin quote or Hank’s pals are offering Good News? They so obviously are not. So why do Christians persist in ‘sharing the Gospel’ in ways that are so very, very similar to the parodies above?
Something inside me wants to curl up and die every time I pass a ‘street evangelist’, because I really truly believe they are doing more damage to the Christian cause that good. There was, of course, the time that I argued with a preacher in Leicester Square, but that’s another story …
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