Welcome Autolite,
I know talking to theists is like playing chess with someone whose strategy for staying in the game is to ignore checkmate. “Whaddaya mean the game is over? I can still move my pawns.”
Basically when on line, I say what I feel needs to be said and when I reach the point where all I can say has already been said, I’m gone.
As for neighbors and family, I keep them on the end of a long handled spoon. There’s an African proverb, the lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding. So if they come to me wanting to know then I tell them. If they just want to shoehorn a testimony or stealth bomb proselytizing, I find something else to talk about.
I know talking to theists is like playing chess with someone whose strategy for staying in the game is to ignore checkmate. “Whaddaya mean the game is over? I can still move my pawns.”
Basically when on line, I say what I feel needs to be said and when I reach the point where all I can say has already been said, I’m gone.
As for neighbors and family, I keep them on the end of a long handled spoon. There’s an African proverb, the lips of wisdom are closed except to the ears of understanding. So if they come to me wanting to know then I tell them. If they just want to shoehorn a testimony or stealth bomb proselytizing, I find something else to talk about.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
