Wrong Number

[evildave]

So I'm just sitting here watching a progress bar and I get a call (yes, after midnight, when most people should be in bed) and it's a wrong number.

He asks for {some guy}, I say, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number."
Out of the blue he asks, "Have you been saved by Jesus?", and I say "No."
He asks, "Do you want to be?", and I say "No."
He asks "Don't you believe in God?", and I say "No."
He blows up and tells me "Well **** YOU!" and hangs up.

I used the same, even tone of voice throughout the conversation.

I said nothing provokative in any way.

And people wonder why 'Christians' have a growing reputation for being 'like that'.

 

[LostAngeles]

So I'm just sitting here watching a progress bar and I get a call (yes, after midnight, when most people should be in bed) and it's a wrong number.

He asks for {some guy}, I say, "I'm sorry, you have the wrong number."
Out of the blue he asks, "Have you been saved by Jesus?", and I say "No."
He asks, "Do you want to be?", and I say "No."
He asks "Don't you believe in God?", and I say "No."
He blows up and tells me "Well **** YOU!" and hangs up.

I used the same, even tone of voice throughout the conversation.

I said nothing provokative in any way.

And people wonder why 'Christians' have a growing reputation for being 'like that'.

I had a similar experience in downtown L.A. once, only it was a little Hispanic woman who began screaming at me. I had the even tone of voice and simply told her, "No" the whole way through too and she began to scream in Spanish at me. So I told her that if she didn't leave me alone, that I was going to have to call the police. She thought that was a good idea. Sadly, my bus showed up and I was more interested in going home. Of course as I was leaving she seriously gave me the most hateful look I've ever seen.

 

[El Greco]

I take it that you are so hard an atheist that your lack of belief diffuses even through phone lines. You have insulted that good Christian by simply picking up the phone and talking in an even tone of voice. Not to mention that you were negative during the whole conversation.

Your fault.

 

[evildave]

Yes... how dare I answer the phone in the middle of the night and politely inform someone that they have misdialed?

It's only the most reasonable thing in the world to proselytise at someone at random whom you've possibly roused from a sound sleep, after midnight on a (very early) monday morning.

 

[c4ts]

Should have kept him amused. "Jesus? I found him under the staircase last Tuesday."

 

[TragicMonkey]

Should have kept him amused. "Jesus? I found him under the staircase last Tuesday."

I know a girl who scares the religious off her doorstep when they come selling Jesus by saying "Yes, I've been thinking about Jesus. [pause] Erotically." If they don't flee at that point, she gets graphic.

 

[c4ts]

Reminds me of that episode of South Park where Cartman starts a Christian rock group and replaces "baby" with "Jesus" in soft rock or something.

"Son, I know you love Jesus, but don't you think that's going a bit too far?"

 

[Skeptical Greg]

Reminds me of that episode of South Park where Cartman starts a Christian rock group and replaces "baby" with "Jesus" in soft rock or something.

"Son, I know you love Jesus, but don't you think that's going a bit too far?"

Sounds like a great idea for a game.. ( Or a new thread? )


Sung to the tune of " Unchained Melody "


Oh my Lord, my Jesus

I've hungered for your touch

A long, lonely time

etc.. etc..

 

[evildave]

I've always simply been patient with them.

It consumes more of their time.

Joe Random Caller could just as easily have gone into the 'but you gotta believe in God/Jesus/whatever the heck he's talking about', and I could've had him talking and found out how he was a drug addict, and then found Jesus, but fell off the wagon, so god did something scary (and typically vehicular) that warned him, and he's been right ever since....