(May 31, 2011 at 5:36 am)Taylor Wrote: Well, as some of you who have seen me around the threads may have picked up that I am newly Athiest.
However, I have hit a bit of a rut in the road.
You see, my parents, even though not incredibly Chrisitan, want me to believe in an imaginary God, and are threatining to send me to another school, or place in fact, if I tell them I have become Athiest.
I have tried dropping many hints too them, talking about the reliability of Science, and other Athiest topics. Yet they presistently tell me to believe in God.
Tell them ... and start enjoying your new-found attention.
Being openly atheistic in a christian high school and church is tantamount to being a rock star.
Classmates and youth group members spend all their spare time attempting to convert you back to the flock, and yet secretly the opposite sex thinks you're a bad-ass. Openly debating your youth group pastor is fantastic and as long as you never curse and remain rational at all times, you'll come out on top.
Meanwhile if you respond with kind, pleasant well-thought responses and continue to point out the hundreds of Biblical contradictions to all of them you may just find what I did. That you will begin to pull a few of those people over to your side.
I'm no longer a true atheist, but I understand it and although it can be difficult at first - there are perks to this lack of religion.