religious friends

[Eilonnwy]

I was sitting at the booth at First Night talking with an atheist friend who shared with me the fact that he was the godfather for his nephew. Essentially his brother had a kid with whom the kid's maternal grandmother is super religious, totally upset about the kid being out of wedlock, and kind of demanded baptism. His brother did it to keep the peace kind of thing. My friend shared with me some of his guilt of being part of this thing when he knows he doesn't take it seriously but other people too. It was nice to have someone confide something like that with me. I told him that I would say the fact that you will be there instead of a religious nut should be a good thing, and you'll probably be honest and truthful to the kid and there's nothing negative about that.

On another note, later that night at a friends house I got accused of being just as bad as those fundamentalist preachers. It upset me a little because I knew I wasn't trying to convert anyone I just like to talk about it because I've been learning a lot and I love to talk about new things I learn. Unfortunately since it's such a touchy subject I guess just talking about it constitutes as preaching. :/