Know your audience

[Beldaran]

Indeed. I'll be heading to your house with my militia ready to enforce my religion with the sword, err, gun, any moment now. In fact, we have our operatives ready in the highest levels of government and the military. Before you know it, the Constitution will be burned, the Federal Government will be abolished and replaced by the leadership of the SBC, and gays will be taken to death camps. Nonbelievers will be given a choice of deportation, extra taxation, or death.

Christians have done it before [read: middle ages]. There's no reason I shouldn't be constantly wary that you'll do it again. I'm just going on history, behavior, and the underpinnings of your genocidal racist despotic infanticidal schitzophrenic flat earth no science creationistic mysogenistic dictator of a biblical god who not only do I not trust for one second, I don't even believe in him.

Don't try to pretend you don't represent a group of people who obsess over an ancient text written by desert nomads who believed the sun was controlled by magic and who slaughtered their enemies without provocation, their enemies' wives, their enemies kids, their own kids, their own animals, and anyone else who dared to question the supreme authority of the magical being that demanded constant bloody sacrifice to appease his lust for power and brutality.

[The_Amaster]

at least he may abandon some of his closed-mindedness

*Sigh* If only that were true. Wouldn't the world be a happy place with sunshinend rainbows and flowers.
Problem is, the kid is likely surrounded by people, propaganda, etc. that tells him he's right. Once it's been ingrained enough, than no amount of dissuading will change his mind, any more than someone can change our minds about the fact that the sky is blue.

the sun was controlled by magic and who slaughtered their enemies without provocation, their enemies' wives, their enemies kids, their own kids, their own animals, and anyone else who dared to question the supreme authority of the magical being that demanded constant bloody sacrifice to appease his lust for power and brutality.

That sounds more Aztec than anything. The original Christians weren't like that, it was only when the greedy ones came around and realized that fear was a good tool to control and opress people that that sect became active.

Normal religion is fine, I like normal religion, that is to say that which has moved with the times, and no longer hold 15th century or older ideas.