This guy says he's a minister.  He's making all the same excuses as all the other theists who go on and on about the Blasphemy Challenge.

It's a shame he can't respect your beliefs and feels a need to rant on the web.

Actually, I'm amazed that a minister is/was your best friend for all these years. 

I'm only really doing this because godtube is sadly the only video site I'm aware of that hasn't been administratively blocked. Yet, anyway.

How pathetic. You wrap up multiple ad hominem attacks at the same time, all of which proving only your own stupidity, irrationality, and reading comprehension failure, without refuting a single valid point presented by the RRS.

Actually I think you're the one in for a "shocker". For one thing, the RRS has already acknowledged the debateable nature of the blasphemy challenge. The fact of the matter is that it's an advertising campaign. You've fallen hook line and sinker. I would go as far as saying that since none of the atheists who take the challenge believe in god, the issue is pointless. There's no hell to go to, so the blasphemy challenges claims are irrelevant in that regard.

For another, the challenge itself isn't the argument. It is therefore incapable of being a strawman, which means you are the one presenting a strawman argument.

This is merely a reading of verse which is in regards to the comments I refuted above.

You're suggesting that atheists are incapable of committing themselves to hell through disbelief. That's fine. Wasn't the point in the first place. Thanks, bye.

PS: You seem like a very angry person. I suggest becoming an atheist. We are much happier people than theists.

friendship with different religious views are very difficult to maintain.  if he is your best friend i might would suggest not to discuss your views to each other in regards to religion. if you expect him to ignore the fact that you are in RRS then you should ignore the video.  sometimes if people feel they have been done wrongly they will retaliate with a greater recoil.

i don't know what kind of agreement that you two came to but he could still be upset that you have joined the RRS?

it is one thing to have a friend that is of a different belief but another to try to keep a friendship when something you believe in deeply is being challenged.  good friends are hard to find but if you two believe so strongly in your views you may just have to take it for what it was and step back.

it was good that you did rant it out before confronting him but now you have to decided where you want to stand.  i wish you sound mind in this situation.  i too have lost some great friends to different ideas, religious or not. 

You lost a friend because you had a beer?!?!?

Let me get this straight - not because you had a 12-pack in one gulp, but because you had a BEER?

Not because you ordered a tall glass of Everclear, but you ordered a BEER?

That's really sad that someone can be that closed minded, but it's hard to imagine being friends with someone that stuffy.

Yeah, it scares a lot of us with great frequency. 

he could have been dealing with a drinking problem or just shocked to see you drinking.  why he wouldn't at least talk to you and catch up is a little surprising.

sense you guys did have that history together you might should've warned him and updated him before the beer.  although i personally wouldn't have walked out on an old friend because he ordered a beer, people are different with different convictions.

He never had a drinking problem.  I think getting the beer was my subconsious attempt to bring up the subject of life change.  Before the meeting, I remember thinking there was a chance he wouldn't be my friend once he found out I wasn't a christian anymore...  but I didn't even make it that far

He was one of those raised in a christian household, and he had the 'fear of god' instilled in him quite young.  He was taught to hate sin.  He lived out his faith.