(January 28, 2015 at 9:19 pm)YGninja Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 8:40 pm)jackriot100 Wrote: so i am looking for a bit of advice from any atheist willing to help. i am 15 and i have really moronic parents who are christian. they think the country was founded on Christianity. they say things like "evolution is just a theory" and considering i aspire to be an evolutionary biologist this irritates me. i do not know what to do about it. i would say do nothing but i feel like i am lying to my parents by not informing them of my lack of belief. they refuse to listen to reason about all subjects involving religion. and example of this was when we talked about how most of the founding fathers were deistic not christian, which was a point i brought up about when trying to explain how we are a secular country founded by secular philosophies. i simply ask for advice coming from any helpful atheist. i do not mean to sound childish but considering circumstances i felt the need to put my trust in a forum of people who are hopefully not as stupid.
Well, i know its not what you want to hear, but the country was founded on Christian principles. Every school and college was Christian, you'd read from the Bible daily. Evolution is just a theory..
I recommend the first thing you do is atleast be honest to yourself and recognise that you do not have a "lack of belief", rather, you believe there is no God.
Actually it was founded on principles that had been around long before Christianity was even thought of, in one form or another.
And the treat of Tripoli clearly states that the US was not founded as a Christian nation.
Evolution is a SCIENTIFIC theory, meaning it's a fact.
No most atheists don't believe in gods, any gods. Very few claim that those gods don't exist.
Next!
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
