RE: Questions: atheist/theist friends
July 17, 2013 at 6:25 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2013 at 6:28 am by Cyberman.)
I have a few xtian friends. I went to school with a born-again God Squad type who just loved his 'mission'; preaching, trying to convert/save me, writing religious tracts etc. Not surprisingly, he went into the Church, lost his hair and gained an equator. However he was fun to debate with and helped to formulate my opinions to what they are today.
Abother couple are what I call Hobby Xtians, that is they only seemed to latch onto this stuff because some of their new friends were doing it. She is more devout than he is; I like to think it's because of my influence that he at least questioned what he'd been told. Incidentally, they both stopped being as churchy as they had been as a result of a spat with their pastor friend. They did annoy me greatly some years ago when they didn't allow me or Sam to attend their wedding, despite having been friends for over twenty years on my part, without explanation but with unfulfilled promises to "make it up" to us. Same went for their children's christenings as well. Maybe they thought I'd kick off or something?
There's been a couple more but the least said about them the better.
Anyway, regarding your OP: who said atheists don't believe in anything? I believe in lots of things; it's simply that gods and god claims don't count among them.
Abother couple are what I call Hobby Xtians, that is they only seemed to latch onto this stuff because some of their new friends were doing it. She is more devout than he is; I like to think it's because of my influence that he at least questioned what he'd been told. Incidentally, they both stopped being as churchy as they had been as a result of a spat with their pastor friend. They did annoy me greatly some years ago when they didn't allow me or Sam to attend their wedding, despite having been friends for over twenty years on my part, without explanation but with unfulfilled promises to "make it up" to us. Same went for their children's christenings as well. Maybe they thought I'd kick off or something?
There's been a couple more but the least said about them the better.
Anyway, regarding your OP: who said atheists don't believe in anything? I believe in lots of things; it's simply that gods and god claims don't count among them.
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.'
