Maybe he thought you were trying to steal his soul or something. After all, one superstition's as good as another.
Yes. This strikes a chord with me, or my Dad anyway. He sometimes tells me of the incident in his early childhood that first showed him the true face of this stuff. Remember that at that time in England, round about the late forties/early fifties, religious sentiment was still quite strong, being an evolutionary leftover from the previous century for the most part. Well, he was at his school as usual one day when the teacher addressed the class, telling them to ask their parents for money to donate to a good cause. The good cause in this case was to send the local vicar or whatever away on holiday.
As he went home later that day, he suddenly thought about what the teacher had said and started to question why his parents should have to fund this bloke's social life when they themselves had never even been holiday in their lives. From that moment on, my Dad started on the road to full atheism; a road I'm proud to walk as his son.
(January 11, 2013 at 5:53 pm)paulpablo Wrote: My guess is because christians preach about being unmaterialistic and not greedy so they didnt want people going around with pictures of their huge fancy cars because of the contradition it would bring to what they had just been preaching.
Its sort of the same thing as what my friend told me put him off the idea of donating to certain charities, he saw the organiser of this certain charity pull up in a ridiculously expensive car.
Yes. This strikes a chord with me, or my Dad anyway. He sometimes tells me of the incident in his early childhood that first showed him the true face of this stuff. Remember that at that time in England, round about the late forties/early fifties, religious sentiment was still quite strong, being an evolutionary leftover from the previous century for the most part. Well, he was at his school as usual one day when the teacher addressed the class, telling them to ask their parents for money to donate to a good cause. The good cause in this case was to send the local vicar or whatever away on holiday.
As he went home later that day, he suddenly thought about what the teacher had said and started to question why his parents should have to fund this bloke's social life when they themselves had never even been holiday in their lives. From that moment on, my Dad started on the road to full atheism; a road I'm proud to walk as his son.
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.'
