If it goes no further, even that risks the retort “Yeah we are, and we like it. You just made up that talk about God... we never see you acting like you actually cared, except to use God as a hammer to hit those over the head you don’t like.”
except to use God as a hammer to hit those over the head you don’t like.”
I say to these people that if they reject Christ’s message, they can learn of their future in Ecclesiastes: They can eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, and then they die just like all other animals.
But Christ shows a better way, and the free gift is immortality with Him.
Then they get to choose.
I’m not beating them over the head with anything. I just offer them a choice: death or eternal life. That is the Christian message.