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Torn: Rescuing The Gospel From The Gays-Christian

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There have been many times where I have tried to use persuasion to convince someone to change an attitude, one situation in particular that I can think of where I tried to change someone’s attitude, and I was unfortunately unsuccessful, is the attitude and beliefs my mother has towards LGBT+ people. My mother is a person of the Southern Baptist faith, and, like many people of this belief, she has strictly negative attitudes towards LGBT+ people. She believes that they are inherently bad and that they are going to hell. I have on many occasions tried to change her attitude.
One instance that I can explicitly remember was back while I was in high school. I had just recently read a book, called Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians …show more content…

The reason this may work is because when someone has discrepant beliefs from the message trying to be conveyed, it is much harder to persuade someone to change their beliefs, however, if the person doing the persuading is an expert in the field, they are more likely to persuade someone to change their beliefs (Russell, 2018). If I was given another chance, I would apply these tactics to try to persuade my mother to change her …show more content…

I would do this by either trying to convince her that the Bible can be translated in various ways and that God does not necessarily condemn LGBT+ people like she believes. I would also make sure to make eye contact with her while explaining this to her to promote trustworthiness. Another thing I could do would be to find a leader in the Baptist community to talk to her about it for me. This would help because the person would be an authority figure in the community, but also someone with expertise in the Bible and what God is trying to tell us through it. Also, along with the person being similar to her due to their shared beliefs, if this person was attractive, according to the Yale approach, this would be even more helpful in persuading her. Whether it was me trying to persuade her, or a pastor, according to the Yale approach to Persuasion, since she has a strong belief that is opposite to what I am trying to persuade her to believe, it would work best to address both sides of the argument, therefore, establishing credibility with her as I am trying to persuade her. In addition to that, since she would likely have forewarning for me trying to change her belief, she would already be preparing ways to counter my arguments. According to the Yale approach, the best way to handle that would be to think of points that she is unlikely to

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