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A lot of these religious zealots tend to straight make shit up, usually about connections to hell/devil/Lucifer. Everything they don't like is somehow connected to Lucifer or Hell. It's usually a control mechanism.
I once had someone try to tell me that 'lol' meant 'league of Lucifer' as opposed to 'laugh out loud', which is ironically exactly what I did when I heard this.
If I ever encounter someone making stuff up like that, I want to ask them to back it up with the Bible, because I have a very strong feeling they're going more on gut instinct than scripture.
I only hear about these kinds of people online, though. Well, except the one time I heard a guy condemning Magic: The Gathering, but he was at least making sensible points about it.
They just block you. They aren't looking for a debate, they look to be validated through the identity they craft for themselves.
I meant in person. I haven't had trouble dealing with this kind of person online in the few times I've interacted with them, probably because they give me the benefit of the doubt for being a Christian myself.
It'll be like playing chess with a pigeon. They'll just shit all over the board and strut like theyve won.
These people don't follow the Bible. They follow what their pastor/parents/husbands say and hang onto every word unquestioningly like it was literally gospel. They won't hear a single word against them or their teachings.. They're the definition of brainwashed.