RE: How to discuss religion with believers?
December 20, 2018 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2018 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So...OP, you've met our pet christians. I couldn't have arranged more wonderful examples of why your OPQ amounted to comments of a futile effort. The types of believers you're looking to engage are..honestly, lost causes, and the types of believers you can engage with will present no significant difficulty. How things ultimately pan out is more luck of the draw than anything else.
We mostly get the lost causes round these parts.....so...you know, interactions here should be taken with a grain of salt. There's something about a gaggle of non believers that makes us irresistible to the worst elements of christendom.
(not to mention islam,judaism, hinduism..etc etc etc)
In my own interactions with believers that can be engaged with..I find nothing but commonality, and I enjoy showing them bits of commonality with other sets of the faithful. I'd say that if you wanted to have those convos, with those people...familiarizing yourself with not only their beliefs, but beliefs representative of the set across multiple sources will provide the basis of productive and enjoyable convos for both sides. Basically, dive into comp myth. You'll just have to avoid fundys like the plague..same as non fundy christians (and other believers) do.
There's just no "there"...there.
We mostly get the lost causes round these parts.....so...you know, interactions here should be taken with a grain of salt. There's something about a gaggle of non believers that makes us irresistible to the worst elements of christendom.
(not to mention islam,judaism, hinduism..etc etc etc)
In my own interactions with believers that can be engaged with..I find nothing but commonality, and I enjoy showing them bits of commonality with other sets of the faithful. I'd say that if you wanted to have those convos, with those people...familiarizing yourself with not only their beliefs, but beliefs representative of the set across multiple sources will provide the basis of productive and enjoyable convos for both sides. Basically, dive into comp myth. You'll just have to avoid fundys like the plague..same as non fundy christians (and other believers) do.
There's just no "there"...there.
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