Reply To: Reeling from Christian friend's bigotry

[More Real Than Any God (Mr Tag)]

Simon, Davis, Matt & Ben: Thanks. I don’t know where I’ll take this next. I see him differently now, for sure. I know I’m far wiser in this than is he, y’know? I mean that I absolutely KNOW he’s full of shit and that he’s like a Trekkie arguing for me to join Starfleet Academy so I can experience Spock’s wisdom, or a kid telling me of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men’s adventures in the Sherwood Forest… But this is a grown man raising three kids to fear an invisible monster who’ll burn them alive in a lake of fire forever just for not believing in the fairytale.

smh

Isn’t it amazing to you? To KNOW that you know how fucked up believers are in this regard? It’s so obvious to those of us who extricated ourselves from it or rejected it from the beginning. Sometimes it fills me with a sense of awe — and responsibility to rationally (if not calmly) try to talk sense into these zealots. Not looking for immediate converts, as I’m certain that coming out of that foggy mess is (most times) done gradually, incrementally, argument by argument, inch by inch, until the tipping point.

That’s how I view it, anyway. I’m sure my deChristianization came about from assembling numerous atheistic/naturalistic arguments until I realized I’d allowed myself to be duped. That day I saw and valued how important it was believing — and WANTING to believe — what is true vs. what I’d LIKE to be true.

Thanks, again, for your insights.