RE: The Bible
April 3, 2012 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2012 at 11:29 am by FallentoReason.)
(April 3, 2012 at 11:16 am)Phil Wrote:(April 3, 2012 at 11:03 am)FallentoReason Wrote: I don't know about the social construct in your life Phil, but you can't just drop the disbelief bomb on 80% of your born-again Christian friends. Social suicide.
Hunter, the one who posted here, is my stepdaughter. She knows I'm an atheist but she didn't disown me. Neither did some of my fundamentalist friends from out of state. If they are really your friends, you wouldn't have to fake your beliefs (if that is what you're doing). Family, well family is a different subject but in my experience they usually are the ones to say "let's just agree to disagree" after they see you aren't going to throw them away.
(April 3, 2012 at 11:13 am)FallentoReason Wrote:Phil Wrote:It's also been mentioned before that I am the one who supposedly woke him up to reason/logic/science/atheism. If anyone besides FTR is supposed to be confident of his sudden change, it should be me and to be blunt, I'm not.Have you seen a single post by me so far that could remotely be called pro-Christ?
One the other forum before you were banned, yes.
I told my family over dinner 3 weeks ago. My parents are Catholic and my sister believes in God but hasn't read a single verse in the Bible. We never talk about religion in the house so I wasn't sure what was going to happen. All that happened was that my dad seemed a little shocked that I said western-culture's baby Jesus never existed. It felt like I robbed him of something fundamentally dear, as Christianity is something you grow up with in South America.
After dinner, we sat down together and he started formulating ways of explaining how Jesus could have existed...
My friends on the other hand is a much much MUCH more complex situation. I'm 'high up' within my group as I play for the church youth band. I also play in a 'real band' where the main criteria for joining is that you have to be Christian. I've invested more money into this band than I care to count. We're soon releasing our first EP so this definitely isn't a good time to drop the Christian act. Friends have often told me how they look up to me because of my Godliness...
This is only the tip of the ice berg. I'm in real deep.
Phil Wrote:One the other forum before you were banned, yes.After my name change?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
