Re: No I'm not a Christian, and yes I do have morals.
- From: "Christopher A.Lee" <calee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 21:12:51 -0400
On Thu, 31 May 2007 17:22:14 -0400, JQ <jacqui@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Every time one of my Christian friends finds out I'm an atheist,
there's this sudden, surprised pause. When pressed (after going
through the 'surely you mean agnostic?' explanations), they will often
admit in a roundabout way that I seemed too nice to be an atheist
(because apparently you need a god to have opinions on human rights
and soforth), ask me dumb questions about whether I'm afraid of hell,
and then spend a couple of months trying in what they apparently think
is a subtle way to convert me. ('You've got to come to this seminar on
Noah's Ark, it'll be fun.' 'I found this really interesting article on
evolution in Creation magazine, take a look.') Is this sort of
reaction universal, or do I just have idiot friends? Should I resign
myself to expecting this sort of thing for the rest of my life? How do
I explain to these people that atheists don't have empty and moralless
lives, and that we don't all sit in dark corners weeping about how
meaningless existence is?
It is universal, and you have idiot friends. Very few American
Christians can grasp how people see their beliefs from outside. Most
of the ones who can, and can also grasp atheism, are immigrants from
multi-religion societies.
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