(September 2, 2015 at 4:23 pm)MTL Wrote: Just because her grandmother found out her granddaughter is an atheist still doesn't mean that said granddaughter is obliged to discuss the matter. ...
Of course. She does not have to discuss anything she does not wish to discuss. But I do not think that refusing to discuss it is going to get the desired results. I think the only way to stop her grandmother from bothering her about this is to either convince her grandmother that there is no god, or (and this is what I expect is more likely in most cases) make the conversation sufficiently unpleasant for her grandmother so that her grandmother will not want to bring up the subject. Otherwise, what is going to stop her grandmother from bothering her for as long as she lives?
I think the most likely outcome of not talking about it will be that her grandmother continues to pester her about this until she is dead.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
