I need to be amongst my own kind

[muhtesem insan]

Welcome friend. It seems your roommate is one of the bugging types. I hate them, they love to present their stupid arguments. I have tactic that stops them most of the times. I say to them "I do not like arguing about religion with people whose faith is strong (this part is important they'll see this as a compliment but for you it'll be an insult) because it's a sensitive matter and my comments can hurt their feelings. Because I do not want to hurt your feelings I prefer not to talk about this." nine of ten cases this stops them.

[KichigaiNeko]

Welcome friend. It seems your roommate is one of the bugging types. I hate them, they love to present their stupid arguments. I have tactic that stops them most of the times. I say to them "I do not like arguing about religion with people whose faith is strong (this part is important they'll see this as a compliment but for you it'll be an insult) because it's a sensitive matter and my comments can hurt their feelings. Because I do not want to hurt your feelings I prefer not to talk about this." nine of ten cases this stops them.

Good one

Then post up pics of "Raptor Jeebus"

[HeyItsZeus]

I feel your pain. I know way too many people like that. The best thing to do is just realize that you can't do anything about him. He's been brainwashed already. <--This is him to God.

Also your situation would make a great sit-com.

[Diamond]

Also your situation would make a great sit-com.

Like The Odd Couple? But instead of a slob and a neat-freak, it would involve a religious person and, well, a non-religious person?

@Destroya27 Welcome from Virginia, US.

[Thor]

Welcome aboard! I know from personal experience that it's good to be among like-minded people.

Your roommate sounds like a typical believer who thinks YOU are the one who is closed-minded. He admits as much with your Buddha example. He is in his Christian bubble and can't see any other point of view.

As for his beliefs, I would challenge him to prove that Jesus even existed. Challenge him to provide any historical evidence that his godboy was real. He'll probably bring up the accounts mentioned in the Bible. NO GOOD! We don't know who wrote the books of the Bible and the actual texts date to decades after Jesus supposedly lived. Plus, we don't have the original texts. All we have is copies of copies. Ask him to find a mention of Jesus in any historian's writings. And I mean historians who lived at the time Jesus was supposedly running around performing miracles. Because you can't! Then ask him why NO ONE would write about a man walking on water, healing the sick with a touch of his hand and rising up from the dead. And why would NO ONE write about zombies walking around after Jesus was resurrected?

Of course, he'll have some ridiculous answers that will satisfy him. But you can point out that if Jesus never existed (and there's no evidence he did) his entire religion is based on shit.

Oh, and I would also get some copies of "The God Delusion", "God Is Not Great", "Godless", and other atheist tomes. I would then leave these sitting conspicuously around the room.

[Skipper]

Welcome. Put up with his shit until the last day of school then as you leave tell him to go fuck himself then have nothing to do with him ever again. Sorted.

[Minimalist]

Order some t-shirts to wear around the dorm. That should piss him off.


http://www.zazzle.com/atheist+tshirts

[thesummerqueen]

cafepress.com doesn't do too badly either

[Minimalist]

It doesn't take much to piss off one of those idiots in any event.

[thesummerqueen]

Black nail polish earned me a severe berating one day. Tsk. Apparently I'm a devil worshiper.