Have You Ever Registered For and Attended a Christian Conference

I have atheist friends whose hobby is attending right wing Christian conferences and conventions. They enjoy chatting it up with friendly Christians, making notes of the absurd ideas presented and reporting the experience at gatherings of atheists. Today on a Christian site was an article by a former Pagan who converted to Christianity and attends atheist/Pagan gatherings. The author tries to convert but has little success. He writes that people are not very interested in hearing about the faith, though he claims a convert or two. 

The link author claims to have been a Pagan previously and eventually converted to Christianity. I'm surprised at how many people there are on You Tube and who write on line that searched several faiths looking for "the truth." The link author claims he found "the truth" in Christianity. So many other left Christianity and found it somewhere else. 

Christians use the term "the truth" so often it's kind of nauseating. The "truth" is something was written in the Bible and what that passage "means" is what the speaker claims it means. But that whole package is "the truth" if it is true there is a God and that God wrote the Bible. The "truth" is not that wealthy goat herders wrote the Bible and passed along folk tales and conventional wisdom reflected in the culture of their time. I can't escape my own conclusion the Bible was written by a tiny slice of society at that time that was literate and those wealthy people were looking out for their own interests.  

For myself, I don't register and attend deep Christian conferences because I find them most unpleasant. To those atheists that can tolerate such an experience my hat's off to you.

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