Hey DJ,

You have gotten a lot of wonderful advice. (Well, not all of it, GC ) I am glad you found us, and hopefully you will get the support you need here to get through the next 4+ years. I am sorry you are going through this, I have a 15 year old, he doesn't want to do anything he considers a waste of time. I am sure it is really difficult to be forced to do stuff, even at meal times, that you don't want to do. Keep your chin up, and as they said early on, come here and vent often. Welcome!

At least you got the lion's share of your life ahead of you. Some people don't see through the bullshit until much later, and some never do.

I agree, the Internet is the death blow to religion. Good!

(February 10, 2015 at 1:37 pm)robvalue Wrote: At least you got the lion's share of your life ahead of you. Some people don't see through the bullshit until much later, and some never do.

I agree, the Internet is the death blow to religion. Good!

The internet is the windshield wipers for such bullshit on the window it will take a awhile but its guaranteed to work.

It's gonna be hard work, and rather obvious, trying to keep your kid off the internet. Bye bye religion, finally you can take your rightful place besides not stop on cracks in the pavement.

(February 10, 2015 at 1:45 pm)robvalue Wrote: It's gonna be hard work, and rather obvious, trying to keep your kid off the internet. Bye bye religion, finally you can take your rightful place besides not stop on cracks in the pavement.

Its not really by religion its more or less good bye good riddance barbaric religions and well here are the peaceful ones now i guess.

Sure, make up some flowery spiritual religions with nice happy books without rape and maiming in them.

I wonder if people are actually drawn to the rape and maiming though. When I suggested once taking slavery endorsement out of the bible, the christians took great offense.

To the original poster. You should try to outdo them at their own game. Examples of this are, bring some snakes in the church to handle them. Encourage others in the church to handle the snakes and allow them to bite them. When they refuse to participate challenge their faith. Other examples would be, shout out strange sounds while flopping around on the floor. You could also foam at the mouth. You could accomplish this with a little piece of Alka-Seltzer. Always think of new inventive ways about doing them at their own game. After a while they will probably decide that you need a little less church in your life.

Right. Point out all the commandments from God they are not following. How many people do they stone to death for working on Sunday? Do they let women speak in church? Do they wear cloths of more than one fibre?

And make them watch this video, one of my favourites to use on ignorant christians. Kinda my catchphrase.

http://youtu.be/pkCJ8rb8Grw

(February 10, 2015 at 2:02 pm)robvalue Wrote: Sure, make up some flowery spiritual religions with nice happy books without rape and maiming in them.

I wonder if people are actually drawn to the rape and maiming though. When I suggested once taking slavery endorsement out of the bible, the christians took great offense.

Pink frilly frou frou god want's his followers not to be total dicks.

(February 9, 2015 at 5:07 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:

(February 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Godschild Wrote: see the relationship some of these gave up with their families, just to be an atheist. Seems to me they chose atheism over family

What a breathtakingly dishonest and morally repugnant series of bullshittery.

Many here have stated choosing atheism has destroyed their relationship with their families, you know that has been stated here your dishonest says everything about you.

GC