@ RachelsSkates
That's frankly the oddest reaction I've seen from theists. I'm used to hearing stories about threats, yelling, indifference, or acceptance, but this is the first instance where the family largly reacted with denial.
I suppose it could be worse, but I suppose as long as you're consistent with your views, they'll eventually get it... for better or for worse.
I brought it up on a related discussion. Naturally I became the center of attention once I did, but I explained my points, they accepted it, and life moved on. It was cool if very uneventful. My parents, while theists, are generally regular folks with their beliefs in the sense that they believe and go to church on occasion, but that's about all of it.
I honestly think I've used our bible more often than they have.
That's frankly the oddest reaction I've seen from theists. I'm used to hearing stories about threats, yelling, indifference, or acceptance, but this is the first instance where the family largly reacted with denial.
I suppose it could be worse, but I suppose as long as you're consistent with your views, they'll eventually get it... for better or for worse.
(August 22, 2010 at 2:11 pm)RachelSkates Wrote: How did you all come out? Were you believed?
I brought it up on a related discussion. Naturally I became the center of attention once I did, but I explained my points, they accepted it, and life moved on. It was cool if very uneventful. My parents, while theists, are generally regular folks with their beliefs in the sense that they believe and go to church on occasion, but that's about all of it.
I honestly think I've used our bible more often than they have.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
