(August 21, 2014 at 6:32 am)Goosebump Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 6:28 am)Brakeman Wrote: My advice would be to swiftly switch it to patriotism by saying "Fortunately in this country I can have whatever belief I want about god!" Then deflect his attempts to continue the belief path with patriotism talk. The thing about patriotism,
It's hard to have a long conversation about it.
I suppose my only concern is if the patriotism turned into gun rights and political issues, which could get messy very quickly. "If your a patriot then you must feel this way about so and so... Only true Pats know that!".
Yeah but you can diffuse that if you want by saying that individual issues don't matter as long as the people get their voice. Vote on it.
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