There is a young man and a young woman on a break from their classes at university. They walk back towards their campus after a long walk to buy the best sushi in the city, and out of an alcove steps a seedy, creepy looking man proffering a small black rectangular piece of paper.
The young man glances up at the face of the older man and decides to contiunue walking. The older man pushes his pamphlets out harder, his intend clearly etched into his face.
The young woman takes the flier. They both direct their pupils at the cover in unison.
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"It will be a religious pamphlet," says the young man, confident in what he saw in the older mans face.
"I dunno, probably?" she replies.
Slowly she opens the cover and begins reading out loud. Statistic flows after statistic on the time required to die, or to save a life. They both look at each other.
"Yep!"
She continues reading...
"...in the time it takes to read this pamphlet you can make a decision about whether you are going to hell or not..."
How lovely. He thinks to himself.
Apparently there are four precursors to saviour:
1. You must admit that you have sinned. Well DER we all have.
He is a quarter of the way to being converted
2. You must accept Jesus Christ. Don't think so, he's kind of dead you know.
3. You must accept that hell and heaven exists. Because if you don't there is no point being saved.
4. You must accept that Jesus Christ died for your sins so you could go to heaven. That's a bit presumptuous.
He is now even more of an atheist than before.
She chimes in, echoing his thoughts, "Why do people persist with this nonsense, why do they try and push it down our throats?"
"You're not religious then? Excellent."
She looks at him like he's mad to have thought she might be, "No way, I hate all of this rubbish, it makes no sense at all. I always get into arguments with Clare because she's an extremely devout, racist, roman catholic, indoctrinated from birth."
"I bet her arguments are pointless and she thinks they actually are reasoned."
"Yeah, she does."
"Religion sucks!" they exclaim as one.
