(November 28, 2011 at 9:30 pm)belphegor Wrote:(November 28, 2011 at 9:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote:i disagree. part of being an adult means you can share conflicting ideas with other adults and not go ape shit. i have plenty of religious people in my life that, while disagree with my stance, tolerate and respect my opinion and me as a person. i think the OP's goal is to get these people to tolerate his views without pissing them off.Quote:yeah, but the OP was asking for ways to answer the question without putting the christians in his life off.
Listen. It is NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE to tell one of these xtian assholes that you don't believe in their fairy tales without them being "put off."
If they are true believers they will go ape shit.
Yeah but you can't stop some people going ape shit. It's the way it is. Pleased for you that you know lots of tolerant theists, that's fucking unusual.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.