Attention Catholic mothers: please do not force your atheist 16-year-old son to put everything aside to watch a church programme that is in your native tongue that you didn't bother to teach him- it will be annoying to him on multiple levels. Do not slap, scratch, or repeatedly hit them in an attempt to force them to pay attention. It does not help your case, and it makes your beliefs look crazier in the end.
Attention atheist sons: Do not put up such a good argument as to back your religious mother into a corner, forcing her to call out your father. Make no attempts to explain to her that you cannot go to hell if you don't believe it exists, because her return argument is 100% guaranteed to be that you will go anyway.Attention fathers of atheist sons who are arguing with their moms: If your stance on the matter is that religion is corrupt and faith is not, explaining why you don't go to church every Sunday, like your wife would like to have happen, find an easier way to break the news than "you're wrong; you can take him to church but you can't literally force him to believe in what you believe, that's his choice," and refrain from explaining exactly why religion is corrupt to the religious wife because you can hear the shattering in their voice when they are in denial about what you say. Especially do not raise your voice in the matter when Religious Wife decides that it's your fault that the child is "broken" because of your infrequent church attendance.
The Family That Prays Together, Separates
Posted by Taizen Chisou on May 6, 2012, 11:55 a.m.
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My experience of religion stems from Northern Ireland. I do indeed think more harm than good comes from religion. I advise you to go out of your way to see how it separates people, how it tears families apart, how it causes war and hatred and discrimination where discrimination wouldn't otherwise exist.
Religious people have only one reason to be horrible and a thousand reasons to be nice.If there is a god or gods, he/she/shim must be a four or above dimensional being.
"But if you lack the tolerance and the respect for someone for their believes and you say you want their believe erradicated, how are you any different than other people who fail to respect other people and their believes?"
I have two problems with your supposed equality of being religious and being homosexual:1: homosexuality is private, whereas religion affects the rest of the world.2: being religious is a choice, being homosexual is not. I find disrespecting a person over a choice they made much more acceptable than disrespecting a person over what they were born with.A bad choice of rhetoric, perhaps. Let's not get confused with language and shit. I was simply trying to express why the argument of "personal experience" is a bad one, as my own personal experience disagrees with that of Cyrus.
"I'm not saying this applies generally to the population, just that it applies generally to the population."
But the bad outweighs the good. The good is part of the human condition, whereas the bad is completely irrational. I am confident that people are loving and kind regardless of whether or not they think God is telling them to be. I'm also confident that people don't blow themselves up unless God is telling them to.