My mother knows I'm an atheist and isn't bothered. My father is a "believer" in the vaguest sense of the word, but I had an odd conversation with him while he was drinking after I stated I preferred Pope John Paul II to Pope Benedict XVI. I can't remember how that conversation began.
Him: "Why? You're not Catholic."
Me: "I'm not anything."
Him: "Well maybe you should be, find a religion."
Me: "I'm a metaphysical naturalist."
Him: "Well that's okay then, as long as you're not agnostic, because there is a god and she's pissed."
Me:
In my experience: use big words, it confuses them.
Him: "Why? You're not Catholic."
Me: "I'm not anything."
Him: "Well maybe you should be, find a religion."
Me: "I'm a metaphysical naturalist."
Him: "Well that's okay then, as long as you're not agnostic, because there is a god and she's pissed."
Me:
In my experience: use big words, it confuses them.
"Faith is about taking a comforting, childlike view of a disturbing and complicated world." ~ Edward Current
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