(September 7, 2015 at 2:20 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote:(September 7, 2015 at 1:34 pm)brian1570 Wrote: i had this convo at a buddy's party a while back. everyone in the conversation except me grew up catholic. yet 7/10's of the involved parties were athiest. call it 3/10 were still catholic yet admittedly knew their religion was ridiculous. only two of us were outspoken atheist for fear of ridicule. and to me that HAS to change. in this day and age logic and reason shouldn't be thrown in the town square and pelted with rotten produce. it should be encouraged and outspoken.
It's funny that you say that, at least the last few years of me being a catholic, I knew that it was completely ridiculous, and I kept it to myself because I knew how ridiculous it would sound to others that weren't christian. It took me awhile to seriously question it, but when I did, I fell out of that religion pretty damned quick. If you know those people well enough, and knew that they were very open-minded people, whenever you had sit-down with one of them, I'd casually bring it up to them. But, the circumstances of bringing up religion when hanging out with religious friends, should be a rare occurrence, so I know it can be tough.
yeah it's definitely a slippery slope to walk but throw in a little alcohol and let the battle begin! most of my friends have a thick skin so it's all good. plus all of my closest friends are atheist or at least "non-religious".
