RE: Ever hear a christian say something so stupid.(Horror stories here)
September 3, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Quote:A beloved family member recently returned to her Catholic upbringing, so she is suddenly very concerned about my atheism. One day we were having a cordial discussion about it, and I asked if she was one who felt that the Ten Commandments should be made the law of the land here in the USA. She immediately responded in the affirmative.
I said, "So you think someone like me, who has no belief in any god whatsoever, should be made an automatic criminal from a law that says, 'I am the Lord your God. You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve,' then? Just owing to my state of being?"
"I don't think that's one of the Commandments," she replied.
Side note: I read a poll recently that some 40% of regular US church-goers (church goers who responded to the poll, anyway) think that 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' is one of the Ten Commandments.
I can't prove it, but I doubt very much that this sort of ignorance is confined to USians.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
