What it really means to "lead people to Christ". (responding to a video which attempts that)

Responding to:
This video. 

 
About me:

Age 51. I believed in Bible-God for most of my life; until age 41. I went through stages, after I realized bibles were BS. (shout out to Darkmatter2525, Christina Rad, 43Alley and others; for provoking me think and helping me realize Bibles are BS) I then switch to: Deistic, "agnostic but spiritual", atheist-ish, atheist, 6.5 on the Dawkins scale, and eventually (at this point) completely antitheist (aka "gnostic atheist"; antitheist; ant-God-ist and anti-religion-ist). ----- I'm sure this video's bait and switch (or "clickbait") tactic is motivated by good intentions. So I won't be one of the people who give you a hard time about not really trying to destroy our arguments. [although, I hesitate to say "our", there; since atheism isn't a camp. We're all just individuals] It can't be done anyways. The best arguments against religion, "God", and Christianity can't be conquered. So it honestly would be best if apologists would just stop pretending they can. The most rational and informed critics against Christianity, "God", and religion really have already won the larger debate; decisively and for all time. Even if some giant glowing guy with fantastic super powers eventually pokes his head through the clouds; and then begins to speak in a language everyone hears and understands perfectly, ... and even if he then begins to spontaneously heal every form of suffering, ... even then the issue shouldn't be reopened; because such a being still wouldn't qualify as a "God"; because of how much suffering will have happened until then. Valid excuses are theoretically possible; but none that would retroactive negate the fact that a being *worthy of the title* would never had let things get that bad in the first place. The title "God" is forever discredited; except for irrational people and people with impressively low standards for what qualifies as a "God" for them personally. Meanwhile, despite your good intentions and likeable personality, ... You're an unwitting groomer; a flying monkey for a religion (yes; it really is a religion) which is also: * a mafia (yes; literally a mafia), * a cult (yes; literally a cult), and * an institution of psychological abuse; modeled on the relationship paradigm between a malignant Narcissist parent/husband and their abused children/wives. What you call "love" is not a healthy version of that emotion. The offer of "grace" is not a kindness. The offer of helping people realize their worth is ... actually the opposite of that too. I want to explain what I mean by all of this. But it would take a full sized book's worth of explanations to really cover it. The rabbit holes runs very deep; partly because your religion has had so many centuries to tunnel it. But if you ever do find the courage to honestly examine it, I'd start here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheraminTrees and then here (or any group with the same theme) to read personal accounts from survivors of the devastating damage your religion has done to their lives: https://www.facebook.com/groups/recoveringchristians You're not leading people into wellness; nor a healthy relationship with their self. You're luring people away from those things.

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