Atheists: Can You Still Accept X'n Friends?

[RobertE]

Of course we can still accept them as friends, just like we can Jewish people, buddhists and Muslims, or Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. This is what makes us human. In saying that, I do have a friend in facebook friend who posted a video about how we are all cousins, from black, white, Bengali, British, French, Cuban etc etc etc. Then I suggested that we are in fact not only cousins of human beings but also chimpanzees and bonobos, since we share the same common ancestor. He was in agreement with all I stated, until I spoke about bonobos, chimpanzees etc. I gave him one example of how we are closely linked with chimps and bons, the vestigial grasping reflex which is still apparent in many mammals today. He concluded that it was true. Don't know if it was a moral victory for me, but I was willing to add a few more examples. Sometimes, you just need to speak to them as if they are normal....