So to all my atheist (or humanist or agnostic or no religion or whatever no god belief) how do you deal with or do you have staunch religious friends?
One of my best friends is hard core catholic (french catholic which if anybody here is from Manitoba or Quebec will understand). We grew up together and are like 2nd/3rd cousins (yeah he knows as one of them and again french catholics will understand how we know that, family is above all except "sky man").
At one point way back this guy, another agnostic (doesn't care about religion/god at all) friend and I were hanging out and we (agnostic friend and I) brought up creationist ridiculousness of 4000 year old earth to him and we asked him if he believed. Knowing our attitudes he refused to respond. We realized quickly that he actually believed that nonsense and stopped making fun of him for it as he was our friend.
Since then we've talked a bit about religion but he doesn't like bringing it up since neither of us can see eye to eye about anything in terms of that topic (although we agree on awesomeness of Canadian Football League, National Hockey League and hot women though not necessarily in that order haha).
Basically we skirt the issue to maintain friendship. So my question is how do you all deal with hardcore bible (or quran or whatever) thumpers that you grew up with or are friends with?
One of my best friends is hard core catholic (french catholic which if anybody here is from Manitoba or Quebec will understand). We grew up together and are like 2nd/3rd cousins (yeah he knows as one of them and again french catholics will understand how we know that, family is above all except "sky man").
At one point way back this guy, another agnostic (doesn't care about religion/god at all) friend and I were hanging out and we (agnostic friend and I) brought up creationist ridiculousness of 4000 year old earth to him and we asked him if he believed. Knowing our attitudes he refused to respond. We realized quickly that he actually believed that nonsense and stopped making fun of him for it as he was our friend.
Since then we've talked a bit about religion but he doesn't like bringing it up since neither of us can see eye to eye about anything in terms of that topic (although we agree on awesomeness of Canadian Football League, National Hockey League and hot women though not necessarily in that order haha).
Basically we skirt the issue to maintain friendship. So my question is how do you all deal with hardcore bible (or quran or whatever) thumpers that you grew up with or are friends with?
“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
