Best books debunking Christianity

[vulcanlogician]

Strangely enough, I don't have those awkward moments with family members who -have- shunned other people for falling away from their shared faith.  I'd posit that the awkwardness and shunning was due to a perceived rejection of what they attempted to instill in you, a subtle and often personally felt criticism of them...not the simple fact of your atheism.   This may explain why I, having been married in or having never believed, get a pass.  I;ve even got a knack for getting the more religious members of my family to tell blasphemous jokes.  I'll appreciate them, and I'm not an inappropriate audience for that sort of thing.

I think rejection may be a key word here. You, in having a "predisposition" toward nonbelief, simply don't count as having had rejected faith, because you never accepted it in the first place. Think of it in terms of someone breaking up with someone after dating for six months. How might someone who is still committed to the relationship respond?


"Remember when we sang hymns in Church together last Easter, and we both seemed really into it? Was that just meaningless to you?"

"Remember when we all got together and prayed? That was real to me. Wasn't it real to you?"

"Who is she? The secular humanists? The objectivists? You're not hanging out with the Unitarian Universalists, are you? All the women who go there are whores!"