RE: Atheists: Can You Still Accept X'n Friends?
July 24, 2016 at 3:19 am
(This post was last modified: July 24, 2016 at 3:20 am by Fake Messiah.)
(July 23, 2016 at 10:57 am)robvalue Wrote: I have a questionnaire covering the 235,873 most important issues to me. It's very important my friends agree with me on every single point. And change their opinion whenever I do, too.
You know I actually have a test, not a questionnaire like you do, but a real test. My test consist of a conversation with a christian and if he/she during convo doesn't knock on wood three times, spit three times, thanks virgin in the sky, throws salt over the shoulder, mentions horoscope and/or doesn't pet the rabbit's paw for good luck then I could be friend with that person. Sure most people just brush it off or smile at at, but I can't.
I'm sorry I'm not Oliver Sacks, I don't know how to handle people with people with distorted reality. I don't want to be seen with a person on the street that stops at the crucifixion and crosses itself. Not to mention that because of stuff like that I quite often get in trouble with Christians. I remember once I was in the house with some Christian relatives and I used the kitchen for something and after me my "aunt" came in (whose house it was) and started yelling at me because I left two knives crossed. I mean this was serious offense and I threw a curse on their family because when you cross the knives it means they will argue.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
