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[Serious] Relationship Advice
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RE: Relationship Advice
(December 9, 2022 at 12:10 am)Ten Wrote: Yeah? How do I let her know that I don't believe in spiritual crap without making her feel like shit? Like, if I say right out, "I don't believe in that sorta thing" right after she's told me this personal story, it will be invalidating to her and make her feel like I am saying she is crazy or making it up. So how do you frame it to be not like a jerk?

Maybe you exclude yourself from the sentence and just go logical. Not as someone who doesn't believe but rather needs to be convinced.

So you could say "There is no evidence that hell or demons exist."

"But many people have witnessed them."

"That is just anecdotal evidence, like when people claim to see Elvis or get abducted by aliens. Or take Muslims, they believe that they get possessed by jinns and even perform exorcisms that you can see on youtube, but you don't believe that." then you both laugh at how silly Muslims are.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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Relationship Advice - by zwanzig - December 9, 2022 at 12:10 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Ahriman - December 9, 2022 at 12:17 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by arewethereyet - December 9, 2022 at 12:18 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Ahriman - December 9, 2022 at 12:23 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Thumpalumpacus - December 9, 2022 at 2:34 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - December 9, 2022 at 4:40 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Duty - December 9, 2022 at 5:30 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Ranjr - December 9, 2022 at 8:41 am
RE: Relationship Advice - by Fake Messiah - December 11, 2022 at 1:03 am

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