(May 2, 2011 at 5:19 pm)darkblight Wrote: it may sound like shallow but frankly I would just fake it for them.
I am not sure how much you interact with them, but if it is only once in awhile then what is the harm in just telling them what they want to hear.
Maybe it's just me, but I think this is bad advice. Maybe it's just because I had to fake it for a while and even today I still feel like I have to be in the closet with my atheism, but I'm tired of not being able to be open with my lack of belief. I know that family is important, but it's not fair to us that we atheists have to hide our true beliefs because it offends or upsets our family members. We're not the ones who need to defend our beliefs. They're the ones who beleive in impossible things. They're the ones who think that everyone has to believe exactly what they believe. Atheists will never get any respect if we keep pretending that we believe what they believe in order to keep them happy.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
