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So really you're just going to waste their time and yours?
Sure buddy. Whatever you say.
So really you're just going to waste their time and yours?
I didn't imply it was a needed service, rather people who struggle with faith that would need counseling on whether or not they should believe/not believe turning to strangers on the phone is just a bad idea.
Lots of places are like that nowadays. But some aren't.
My situation was interesting. We moved there because there was a really good district. It had recently expanded, which was great for my father, because like most good districts, a lot of it was expensive to live in. The expansion gave him more options...
...But it also brought in some of the people from the district of Minnesota that is famous for having a record-setting rate of gay teen suicide and abusive conversion therapy practices. And they brought that into the schools.
I've recounted some of the things I saw and experienced before on DP. I felt unsafe even around some of my teachers. One time, in a choir I was in when we were having lunch after an event, the director and the other students were talking about what they'd do if an atheist ever started trying to tell them about evolution and that creationism was incorrect. Let's just say it wasn't "give them a cuddle."
Jews, gays, atheists, pagans, and Muslims were all targets. There were several violent incidents while I was there, one of which was near-fatal, a couple of which I actually saw, and one of which was aimed at me (along with a number of threats).
Yawn. There you go, overdramatizing things. Provide some statistics please of all these "unsafe" atheists who are being assaulted by Christians in this backward country.
I know a couple of people who were on the receiving end of beatings and threats because of they did not conform to the religious expectations. One was beaten by the ministers sons. Another had her skull cracked open because she was gay. and the people who assaulted her said they were just doing the Lord's work at their trial. Needless to say that both had highly negative views of religion in general, and Christianity in specific because of those experiences. It took exposure to some more liberal theology for them to realize not all religion is like that.
Don't blame 'em. When that's what you know, it's understandable to have such a negative opinion. Mine was more negative than it is now too. The religious people in my family weren't much better than the people in my district. Less sociopathically violent, but they still threw my cousin on the street for being gay after one of my aunts maliciously outed him.
Amusement.
Hilarity.
The sad, sweet irony of making an atheist who thought he was going to talk a good Christian out of his faith shrivel up in a corner and cry. I don't know, there's a lot of reasons.
I'm sure these guys are going to love to hear from a loud, proud Texas conservative like me. I'll tell them all about Jesus.
I bet I get at least 10 of them to quit this little job by the end of the week.
I have a relative that came out as bi, and her parents just totally accepted it, and accepted her girlfriend too. One of my friend's has a gay son, and her daughter was pretty neutral for a while. She thought her daughter was gay, which she would have accepted, but she said "I hope she likes ****, because I want to be a grandmother"
Oh, the assumptions of parents who don't realize their kid's life doesn't belong to them.
I'm straight and won't be having kids -- me and 20% of the female population. So what if her kid is one of the childfree?
Or one of the gays who uses donor cells, for that matter?
I really wish parents would realize it's not about them.
To be fair, I absolutely do believe there are atheists who can and do support other's religious beliefs. In fact, I remember one atheist totally standing up for me in RL when he thought another atheist was belittling my faith (he actually wasn't, but it appeared that way to those who didn't know that that's just how we related to each other).