I just heard a version of the **** from a good friend last night.
He a good and decent man.
He followed up with something too.
"It costs nothing to believe. There is no risk. But if you don't believe, the risk is terrible."
A **** sales pitch doesn't work for me. That crap doesn't carry any weight and certainly will not alter my belief system. I honestly don't know how a person can just suddenly "change religions" or their actual beliefs.
Something profound, out of their control, has to occur. At least that's what it would take for me...
I didn't bother engaging with him over it. My beliefs have weight and his are a bit on the "insurance side".
btw
I have a belief with regard to Creation. Doesn't match "religion" but it also doesn't discount it either.
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.