RE: Just converted my mom to atheism.....????
January 31, 2015 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2015 at 12:03 am by Rancid.)
(January 30, 2015 at 11:53 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I'm confused about how admitting that faith is what "got her" means that you might have converted her to atheism...
To a lot of religious people, faith is a good thing to have, and admitting that faith is why they believe is their weird little pillar to stand on and look down on those of us who require evidence and sound reason. "You have to have faith" is their battle cry and their retreating argument.
Perhaps you didn't explain the story fully?
Yeah, she said that when it all comes down to faith, then you can't really prove anything. And she really likes to think of herself as someone who looks for truth, and thinks logically and rationally... does that clarify it a little more? She also shared how much she has prayed and prayed and prayed and nothing happens, after I shared my experience of doing the same thing. Again, I apologize if I'm a little disorganized :')
Before I made that point, we had already been going back and forth for quite a while about our different viewpoints. It might've all just connected for her.
