RE: Help to de-convert!
August 4, 2016 at 7:58 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2016 at 7:58 am by Fake Messiah.)
Yes if they would listen. Maybe you'll talk to him and he'll get to upset and stop the conversation only to think about it for some time and then later come back at you with new "arguments" which you could easily topple.
Maybe you could just say "OK if you're so religious that means no more sex, because sex for unmarried is forbidden in xtiandom"
But when it comes to documentaries I would recommend "A Journey to Planet Sanity" (2013) it is a light documentary that goes head on against superstitious beliefs, but not religion itself, so he may find himself enjoying it and then at the end starting to question his beliefs little bit. Then you can proceed with "Secrets of the Psychics" which is similar documentary like the last one, but more serious and it doesn't tackle religion directly. Then maybe you could make him read book "Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions" which goes more deeply into explaining why superstitions don't work and even tackles religion.
After that he could maybe proceed to Carl Sagan's "Daemon Haunted World" and then Dawkins' "God Delusion".
If he takes all those steps he will be an atheist, but then you have to maintain it. Maybe by reading science books to see how people developed these theories of how the world functions and how we put them in use.
Maybe you could just say "OK if you're so religious that means no more sex, because sex for unmarried is forbidden in xtiandom"
But when it comes to documentaries I would recommend "A Journey to Planet Sanity" (2013) it is a light documentary that goes head on against superstitious beliefs, but not religion itself, so he may find himself enjoying it and then at the end starting to question his beliefs little bit. Then you can proceed with "Secrets of the Psychics" which is similar documentary like the last one, but more serious and it doesn't tackle religion directly. Then maybe you could make him read book "Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions" which goes more deeply into explaining why superstitions don't work and even tackles religion.
After that he could maybe proceed to Carl Sagan's "Daemon Haunted World" and then Dawkins' "God Delusion".
If he takes all those steps he will be an atheist, but then you have to maintain it. Maybe by reading science books to see how people developed these theories of how the world functions and how we put them in use.
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"
