(July 17, 2011 at 3:15 am)CharlieMilles Wrote: Lol, no, I was being facetious. I "dated" a girl in junior who was quite religious, as was her family. It wasn't an issue at all until her mother asked me if I believed in god and I answered no. She went on to tell me how here son was killed in a car accident and that it was part of god's plan ect. That was uncomfortable - mind you, I was 14. I got into trouble with her mother another time when I rented The Exorcist for her daughter and I to watch - there was that too. But, overall, it wasn't too bad.
I'm married to a Catholic but fortunately she and her family are 'watered-down.' They only go to church on holidays and they don't push God onto the heathens. My wife and her mother know that I openly hate religion and are fine with it.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell