Now, after watching this one, can you say religion doesn't induce madness?

Lets hope their "God" doesn't instruct them to kill nonbelievers. How old are these girls?

Great opportunity to expose them to rational thought. Good work!

Did you expect different? That such an answer is good enough to sustain their convictions only supports the notion that they don't aim particularly high, regarding their standards of evidence. Would also be interesting to hear what questions they pose to you.

Religion by its very nature is a psychosis and you can't argue with crazy people

That is truly scary as I am 100% sure they are quoting stuff they learned in church!

I'm not shocked at all. Believing in a creed requires a certain amount of willing moral ambiguity. Whether it's a tribe with a sacrifice ritual or a crime family or secret society or.. an organized religion.. they all seem to require a sharing of a crime as part of an observable loyalty pledge or behavior,

In the case of your co-workers, they have bought into the notion of their god's righteousness which allows them, as a collective, to accept inhuman action by an inhuman entity as having a higher purpose over self.

#MakeReligionIllegal

I try to avoid talking with stupid people.

I love quoting Christopher Hitchens for this type of thing.

Good people will always find a way to be good. Bad people will always find a way to be bad but to get a good person to do something evil, well that takes religion.

The answer they provided you...is not an example of ethnic cleansing? Regardless, is the answer of people whose brains has been corroded by worst opiate.

Did you give their names to the local mental health clinic?

I rarely quote Foxworthy... But you can't fix stupid!

They don't seem to have a clue. But then, neither do so many young Mormons out gospelizing. Ask them about being a regular murderer, in the Mormon church as opposed to an equally staunch evangelical one (Mormons claim murder is an unpardonablle sin, some will as it is church doctrine, while most avoid the topic or don't understand themselves).
BTW, now that you have become friendly, do they know your full name? If you pass away, they, and the Mormon church, can write down your name in their book/list and pray you into heaven. You may remember a number of years ago the Church was holding an organized "pray in" for all the jews for whom they had names (millions) killed in the Holocaust to get into Mormon heaven. Many Jewish people got upset and made a fuss. I found the whole incident ridiculously funny.

The whole "God has to intervene or else..." is a flawed concept, even from a biblical perspective. Intervention only makes sense without any prior knowledge of the chain of events that will unfold should a specific individual be allowed to spawn from the earth in the first place. An all-knowing omnipotent God is in direct contradiction with the need to intervene.

Very dangerous.
Abraham with Isaac: case in point. That's the god all these people believe in.

A better question, since "god" is omnipresence, why would he have to kill a few bad seeds? Couldn't he just have removed the few bad ones, and allowed the rest of the world to live peaceably?

But you are VERY correct. That frame of mind is incredibly dangerous. It has sparked more than one war.

Tell them if they don't adjust their thinking, they'll have to go back to Palmyra, New York where the whole nonsense started.