@goodlife - Once again you are guilty of unattributed cut and paste postings. You cannot even preface the story by acknowledging that you lifted it from Watchtower.
Intellectual dishonesty - Yet again.
People respond to your original post and follow story - the one lifted from Watchtower- but you fail to acknowledge the responses, or to respond to them yourself.
JtH posted a link showing that one of the people that featured in your story has actually identified themselves, and also given details of the inaccuracies - some may say lies - of your original post, the one from Watchtower- again, you fail to respond.
Instead you offer us more homilies, straight out of the "big book of trite tails and saying praise the lord".
Like the whole circular argument about love. The fact that there is an emotion, an attribute, a condition called love is not proof of god at all - and you most certainly can have love without god - we have been experiencing it for millennia.
You continue to assert that "god most definitely exists" without offering any evidence or proof. Your faith is simply that - faith. It is not evidence of anything.It is precisely as rational as believing that the earth is flat, or that money left under the pillow in exchange for a tooth comes from the tooth fairy. There is no evidence that mankind was created. And uur stewardship of the earth, whilst having some glaring problems, is still much much better than if we followed biblical guidance.
I was not aware Matthew mentioned atheists. I was all set for a good read, then found out that he did not, after all, mention atheists. Bit of dramatic licence on your part there, Goodlife. And we only have to look to the JW for numerous examples of false prophets, don't we? There is a whole list of failed prophecies emanating from the JWs....
As far as I am concerned, every hellfire and damnation preacher, every vicars sermon invoking an eternity in hell, every drive by poster in discussion forums offering a little story that suggests that we should be grateful for - well nothing substantive really - is evidence of an imaginary god whose followers revel in seeking converts through fear. Those who preach the end days,seek notoriety, seek publicity and are most definitely attempting to scare people into believing.
You continue to use this forum as a pulpit for sermonising. You refuse to engage with criticism, or comment or discuss points with other posters. You continue your established pattern of intellectual dishonesty, regurgitating unattributed turgid prose from watchtower.
The worldview you offer is unappealing, unevidenced and irrational. I can think of no redeeming features at all.
If you were a doorstep JW, you would start sermonising before the householder had fully opened the door, hectoring them with vapid utterings from Watchtower. If they asked you a question, you would ignore it, and preach at them again, with yet another irrelevant verse.I think you could singlehandly boost the numbers of self-professed atheists as a consequence of your visits.