I talked to a lot of interesting people at UWA’s Orientation Day. It’s a day when university clubs have their big membership drives. Religions, eager to counter the effects of learning, have their booths as well, and — oh joy — one was a contingent of Mormon missionaries. So I took some time off helping the UWA Atheist and Agnostic Society to have a chat.
They’re fun to talk to, but I can never get used to how uniform their thinking is. You could get the same line of patter from any of them. I suppose atheists say the same things, too.
Here’s the first in a multi-part series: Trolling teh Mormons.
25 February 2011 at 10:56 pm
Daniel – at some point you need to do a talk of stories and anecdotes about your chats with Mormons! Your stories are always so interesting and I think our membership in general would really appreciate hearing them!
This post got me wondering, though – when the missionaries find out you're an ex-Mormon, does that make them try extra hard to convince you that they're right because you believed it once so why not again, or do they sort of give up because they know they've got very low odds of convincing you to come back?
28 February 2011 at 4:33 am
For a little while, it's the former. Then when I have them in the crushing grip of reason, they say, "Well, it looks like you've already decided, so…"
The funny thing was that one of them started to bring up a Book of Mormon verse, and I said, "I know what's in that book, Elder." Then they all laughed.