(September 3, 2011 at 9:55 pm)aleialoura Wrote: One day my Aunt, who is a member of a Christian "super church", asked me how I knew about evolution etc, to which I replied that I have learned about it from reading books. She then fired back that I "shouldn't believe everything I read." This coming from someone who claims to read and believe the new testament. Since these are the kind of people I deal with, I find it exhausting to even consider trying to make them think scientifically, and convert them from their irrationality, to free thought and careful examination of evidence. It's just pointless... don't you think?
You should have said: "Yeah, good thing your religion is not based on a book"
I actually feel bad for you because you need to live with such people. Maybe if you come up with few really good questions they can't answer, they will stop trying to convert you and start thinking with their own brain?
I'm not a passive atheist, but not so assertive either. Sometimes I talk about religion with my sister or my mom, and usually they just say something like "Stop it already" or "I don't want to listen". I guess they just can't accept that they might be wrong. But I'm not trying to convert anyone, I just like messing with them, and then see their reactions when they can't prove me wrong and especially when they have no actual evidence to back up their faith.
The biggest problem of the human race is that they cannot accept that there is nothing after death.
