(March 23, 2014 at 8:33 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: You can always offer to go to church in exchange to them going to a secular student meeting or some such. Some people on here are so silly like going to church is going to be the first step to you stop thinking or something. I went to church once out of politeness (and to get free food) as an open Atheist. It did nothing more than it ever did when I was a child. Bore me for about an hour.
I get where you're coming from, and if you aren't opposed to going to church, then I'd say do it. But when someone's goal is obviously to 'save' you, to me there's a real reason to create that boundary. Not only is it leading them on, but it is encouraging more of that behavior.
Also, I really want nothing to do with the rituals, the creepy ceremonies, the child indoctrination. I can't stop it, but I won't have anything to do with it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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