RE: YEC Girlfriend
November 23, 2013 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2013 at 7:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
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Congratulations on climbing out of (most) of the Bronze and Iron Age superstition that is Christianity.
I hate to break this to you, but it may be next to impossible to move her away from YEC. I have a family member that has been a YEC from about the same age as your girlfriend, and she's more than double that age now.
Everyone else in the family, including other Christians she trusts have tried to convince her that believing in YEC is tantamount to believing in s geocentric universe, but she won't budge.
So, you might have to learn to live with it. But hell, you are only 18. Chances are you will have several more relationships before your mid 20's.
Sorry I have no advice for you.
Congratulations on climbing out of (most) of the Bronze and Iron Age superstition that is Christianity.
I hate to break this to you, but it may be next to impossible to move her away from YEC. I have a family member that has been a YEC from about the same age as your girlfriend, and she's more than double that age now.
Everyone else in the family, including other Christians she trusts have tried to convince her that believing in YEC is tantamount to believing in s geocentric universe, but she won't budge.
So, you might have to learn to live with it. But hell, you are only 18. Chances are you will have several more relationships before your mid 20's.
Sorry I have no advice for you.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
