Hello all!

[eyemixer]

Thanks to you all for your wonderful responses and advice. I have to say @ eyemixer you seem like quite an intelligent person, i actually feel a little smarter reading your post. Some very good points made, i like your point of view. =)

I can't take too much credit, a short story I read by Gordon Dickson when I was a wee lad had a scenario where alien contact happened & that basic concept was explained. It's stuck with me ever since

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I guess in the end i try and respect everyone's belief.. but i feel religion is unfairly forced down people throats these days. "You should be this way, or this way. Oh don't do that it's a sin!!" and i also guess i see a little more of that first hand.. (I live in a SUPER religious town.. East Texas.. x.x) I just want to go out like some atheist super hero some times and educate people. I can't stand that certain religious groups just blatantly spew pure lies as truth... I see first hand how the less educated are easily manipulated are brain washed into doing certain things or living certain ways and it sickens me.

I have lived my whole life in Texas.. as a kid i was quite a trouble maker in school and was pulled aside by the school counselor. She pretty much told me that if i didn't live by her version of god that i would burn in hell. That one day affected me for the rest of my childhood.. sent me spiraling into deep depression thinking i was a bad person for doing these things and that i faced an eternity of burning in hell. I think a different approach would have been much better.. Are parents and adults just so lazy they have to resort to scare tactics?

So to this day i just can't stand people lying.. i know how it affected me and i guess i just don't want anyone else to go through that. In the end i found my own way and educated myself on the subject with no help from the school. If anything school confused the crap out of me because i knew the biblical story.. but history and science classes directly contradicted each other. Then when i would lean one way towards Science or whatever I would get bullied by other kids. Because they were taught not being religious (christian/catholic) was wrong.


I guess i just don't understand some people.... I have numerous religious friends all which know far less about the bible than me. Who knows maybe if they actually read the bible they would see how ridiculous it is?

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Hmm well anyways I guess I will tell my friend i just don't want to talk about such things anymore, and until she shows me good supported by fact truth i will never believe. Maybe that will stop all the trying to convert me crap.. which will never happen.

Just tell her it makes you uncomfortable discussing religion and that you like spending time with her because {insert reason} and you would rather talk about that.

I was in the DFW area and yeah, random people on the street would ask me if I had been saved on a daily basis (lived in Deep Ellum for a while). I think the atheist experience is out in Austin? Not sure how far that is for you but might be worth the trip if they still do dinner after the show each week.