Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

Says who, @DrBob ? This is an atheist website and all our atheist members are free to be as unfair and irrational as they like.

LOL. Well, that’s true. And as I have said in this thread and on multiple occasions on the old TA site, I am completely understanding of folks who just want or need to vent. If I lived in the Bible Belt of the former Confederate States, I expect I would need to vent, too. I go bananas just with the anti-science Tea Party folks in my own state (so it’s good to know where to find the best bananas, thanks! 😉 ).

My comments as a visitor are just my comments. They’re an old professor’s friendly attempt to offer perspective from the “other side”, if you will. Folks can consider them humorous, or they can consider them thoughtfully, or they can ignore what I write, or print them out and use them for toilet paper. Or, as I suggested to @ Mr. Tag, they can ask me to butt out so that the thread doesn’t wander off track.

Nobody has to be fair or rational or well-informed. At the same time, I think those things are worth encouraging, don’t you? It’s something that we all need friends and colleagues for, because we all struggle with our own biases. I certainly do.