>>10951091yeah i shut down some evangelists speil pretty hard one time.
I was waiting for an appointment for something and had a half hour or so to kill. So I went over to this park bench near a river and sat down to try and chill out before my meeting
by myself, sitting on a bench. next thing I know I see this car roll by nice and slow with a load of young people dressed in nice clothes. I Just knew instantly that they were evangelists and were casing me for an approach.
They probably saw me, a lone man sitting on a bench, and thought it was a sign from god that they were sent there to "save me" from who knows what ,lol.
At the time my life was busy but I wasn't "searching for spiritual help" or existential answers, i was just busy with adult life stuff. But also at the time I was in a particular mood of disdain and out of patience with religious nutjobs because of various reasons.
So this young man, probably late teens, early twenties max, comes up to me all friendly and gets his segway into religious evangelism started and I just let him have it, i went on about how much hypocrisy and retard logic is in the religious story rhetoric.
I wasn't trying to be mean or spiteful, I was coming from the angle of, look kid I've heard this crap before and let me tell you I think its a load of bollocks and here's why..."
As I was talking to him and by the time I was done I could see he was visibly and physically shake, he literally stumbled backwards and stuttered something and looked like he was going to fall over from fear or confusion I don't know
At that moment and ever after I felt bad for the way I lashed out at religion towards him. He walked away and went back to the car and his group and they drove off.
I really did feel bad for responding to him so aggressively. I mean, i didn't swear or cuss or raise my voice at all. but i was direct and cold and cutting towards religion in my remarks
i did feel bad and I think I did say, "hey man, Im sorry"
