[15:10] * Warpmind grins and toes the line.
[15:11] <Warpmind> Well, my regular gaming store got picketed today.
[15:12] <Warpmind> It was a VERY interesting event, I assure you; their spokesperson was a fairly charismatic person who, unfortunately for them, used scripture to describe what the store was about. He did so badly. Very badly...
[15:13] <Warpmind> At the time I arrived, he just got to the part where "As sure as God created the world in seven days, every sinner who enters those doors will burn in Hell."
[15:13] <Warpmind> This, of course, was WAY too good to pass up...
[15:15] <Warpmind> So, I say to him, "Actually, you're perfectly right. Now, to prove WHY nobody here will burn in Hell, let us start with your first claim there - God did not create the world in seven days; he used six. And rested on the seventh. Second, nobody here is going to Hell, thanks to this generous fellow who lived about two thousand years ago - you may have heard of him; went by the name of Jesus."
[15:16] <Warpmind> I kind of popped most of his balloon there and then. He started muttering something about how it was ungodly to even think about magic and such concepts as the gaming store by its very nature describes. And I reply quite calmly that hey, even King Saul consulted a witch in his time of need.
[15:18] <Warpmind> Of course, the Coup de Grace was when he asked me who the hell I thought I were anyway, throwing scripture back at him like that. "[name removed by request]," I replied. "REVEREND [name removed by request]."
[15:19] <Warpmind> He looked kind of spiritually mauled at that point, and I went peacefully into the store. Where I was asked how I managed to do that to a man. So, checking that the door was properly closed, I grinned, shrugged, and said "There's a saying: Even the Devil quotes scripture."
[15:20] <Warpmind> Sad to say, I doubt anyone in the general area of Bergen is going to get theological with me for a LONG time now. };)