RE: What do i do im surrounded by christians and they want to change me?
October 17, 2016 at 6:29 pm
(October 17, 2016 at 1:30 pm)Asyrel Wrote: So my whole family is christian i used to be, but going through highschool learning about physics and biology it made me stray away from the bible since it made no sense, but to put it simply I'm 22 now, i still live with my mom and my sister with her boyfriend while im studying graphic design.
They recently joined a new church and i promised my mom that i would come once just to make her happy because i know it wont affect me in any way. So i went, at the end though some of them came up to me to ask if i would come back. I replied "probably not, I'm an atheist". So then after that they tried to debate me on the existence of god obviously they had no proof and they just mocked evolution and the big bang.
At the end though this is what really pissed me off they said "give it three months you will be reborn and sitting in this church willingly". What do i do in this situation im surrounded by people that think they will change me i cant reason with them because they are just mentally incompetent to think rationally.
The best thing to do is, learn all the refutations to all their arguments. Which isn't tough. They probably have nothing.
Ask them all the difficult questions about their beliefs and the Bible. Slavery in Exodus 21, the slaughter of the Midianites in Numbers 31:7-18 is also good, especially the part where god tells the soldiers to keep the virgins as spoils of war, a similar story in Judges 21:10-24 are good places to start.
Some good resources are infidels.org and ironchariots.org to start.
Sooner or later, they'll leave you alone.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
