(April 3, 2015 at 11:59 am)coolfunkDJ Wrote: damn, good advice, but I'm not really the 'rebellious' type, and Ive been once, lets just say its hard to meet friends and people there...
Not rebelling, I'm just saying when the parents aren't around, be subversive. But you gotta be confident about it. People will gravitate towards you. I was in your exact shoes as a 14 year old. I was forced to go to Youth Retreats for a cult called "Campus Crusades for Christ" and "Student Venture" here in America. I would be at these retreats where we were influenced to do things like destroying all our secular music, and preached to about the dangers of homosexuality. I didn't rebel, but when we were away from the seminars, I would just say things like "I'm not getting rid of my secular music, I paid a lot for that" and made the typical non-judgmental arguments against gay-bashing, and lo and behold before long there were people gravitating towards me who weren't buying into the whole fundy thing as well. I still am friends with one of the guys I met to this day. He is still a Christian, but we had typical teenage fun on those retreats. (Being from Florida they were usually at the beach!) What I'm saying is not necessarily to be an outspoken atheist, but to be a subversive skeptic who has his own opinions.
(April 3, 2015 at 12:03 pm)Chuck Wrote: This is a battle that has to be fought. Fight it or remain a pet forever.
Not as a 14 year old. It's too early. You can not be a pet when you're 18 and independent. It's the wonderful part of being a freethinker. You can be rational about things and pretend to buy into it as little as possible until you feel the time is right. Just like coming out of the closet as gay, you have to be ready and you can't force it before you are ready.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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