RE: Pastor once told me we all naturally believe in god
June 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2012 at 6:54 pm by Cyberman.)
My first response was an attempt to set his mind at rest by reassuring him not to take his pastor's words too seriously.
My second followed the agreement of my point in his reply and reiterated the sympathetic tone of the first, coupled with a nugget of advice regarding how to handle what people with an agenda might want him to think.
I could have advised him to see a doctor but I decided to try a different angle of approach since such advice had already been offered - particularly since I felt that it was the kind of advice he has presumably come to expect to hear, as pertinent and appropriate as it is.
I fully concur with not using this as a platform for anything other than that for which it was intended.
My second followed the agreement of my point in his reply and reiterated the sympathetic tone of the first, coupled with a nugget of advice regarding how to handle what people with an agenda might want him to think.
I could have advised him to see a doctor but I decided to try a different angle of approach since such advice had already been offered - particularly since I felt that it was the kind of advice he has presumably come to expect to hear, as pertinent and appropriate as it is.
I fully concur with not using this as a platform for anything other than that for which it was intended.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
