(July 25, 2013 at 1:37 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: If you want to talk to your friend about this, don't be emotional about it. Don't bring his religion into it, if he brings it up, brush it aside. Just focus on the things he believes in that would really impact his life, no need to talk about whether or not god is real Just do it like 2 friends chatting. The moment one of you gets emotional, the entire conversation is pretty much lost.
On the other hand, just live with it. It's all good until he tries to convert you. Then once he realizes that isn't doable, and he accepts your atheism, your friendship should be fine. If he doesn't accept it ... that's another story.
It's just that, inevitably, *everything* is interlinked. After I asked him how sound engineering was going, I said that I wish I could put 100% of my time into music like he is. That in turn triggered him to comment on society and how we're so focused on the material and wanting temporary success/pleasure ergo we don't understand our purpose ergo god. It's like a scale; you weigh down one of the sides with a certain topic and the other side rises up with a related one, which is usually god. So in short, anything of real substance, of true meaning and value that can be talked about will awaken our opposing pre-suppositions.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
