Handling a Preacher is not that easy. It is a fight for control of the conversation. They have prepared themselves with tons of answers and responses. They don’t stop trying to work you over unless you have thoroughly beaten back their arguments with very well prepared arguments of your own, or when you make them realize that they’re not going to get anywhere with you.
How do you handle a situation where a Christian believer starts preaching to you in a public transport?
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It totally depends on what you want. You may be a person who doesn’t mind being preached to, or you may be someone who enjoys two-way discussion about religion. I’m hoping that I would give a polite but firm “No!” and that the preacher would comply. A Christian preacher homed in on me while I was working one morning. I was washing the windows, and it was pretty obvious that I was busy and not in a position to leave what I was doing. She was behind me when she first started talking but I had a pretty good idea she was about to start a long preaching. She asked, “Who is the King of this world?” – a pretty dumb question for starters. I answered with the name of my local football team’s main striker. Yes, I intentionally sabotaged her pitch. I then told her off— strongly but politely, for interrupting when I was busy. She maintained her right to preach and I told her that when I am a Christian believer and they always teach me not to hassle people who were clearly busy.
I usually have a conversation with them, except when they approach me too early in the morning or when my schedule is tight. But when I have the time, I love to engage with them. As a born atheist, religious people have always fascinated me, because their core beliefs are so utterly alien to me. I just fail to grasp how someone could belief in a diety in this day and age, so whenever I get the opportunity, I try to learn about what makes them tick. I have had friends that are Christian, usually catholic, and whenever I talked to them or their parents about it I never came away with anything substantial that justified their belief: it was just there, it seems. I ended up concluding that religion was something you had to be brought up in to get into it, but that still didn’t explain what made it, well, believable, to them.