I have been witnessing to people since the mid 60's (jostling with the Hara Krishnas at the airport as a teenager) and I have noticed a real hardening of hearts.
So have I. So called "Christians" using their faith to browbeat others with no regard for what their messiah would have actually done....
Oh, that's not what you're talking about, is it?
Back then, most people would at least politely listened to what you had to say before saying no thanks and many would actually ask questions.
Yes, and in the 60's, if you weren't "PRAYZIN' JAY-ZUZ!" you were a filthy commie...start there.
Today, I find that people are either condescendingly patronizing or have a vitrolic hatred towards God and the Bible.
Could it stem from people acting condescendingly patronzing or vitriolic against those they disagree with, or are "witnessing" to? For example showing the misguided homosexuals God's love...by screeching about the hellfire their loving God has waiting for them, unless they're prepared to like a life of misery, be it through celibacy or through living a lie. And the girl that gets knocked up that gets shunned from the congregation, and her family...stuff like that.
Family members that at least would engage in dialogues in the past have become so vilolently opposed to it that physical assault is an acutally danger.
Because a person can only be preached to so much, and being treated like you can't possibly know anything for yourself if it conflicts with said family member's beliefs in the slightest. I'm sorry, but if my family spent every moment I was with them cramming verses down my throat, I'd be kinda pissy, too.
