I think there is an important lesson there that you, for whatever reason that is really is not my place to judge, choose not to see.
I am not on any mission to sway anyone's beliefs. It is my position that this is your(pl) mission... and I, like many others, am sick of it. It is very annoying that when I go out and do what I do in the capacity of my job, I am forced to listen to religious rhetoric because I am a captive audience, and because I am in peoples homes in a professional capacity, cannot engage the subject honestly. Every day. "What church do you go to?" "Do you know Jesus?". No I don't want any watchtower pamphlets. Why do you presume you know better than I with less understanding of your own religion?
Where the hell else am I going to discuss MY beliefs? Sorry if it came across as persecuting... it is the inverse that I accuse you(pl) of.
As I said. I never find Christians who are honest enough to explore their OWN beliefs... they just want to demonstrate that MINE are wrong. When you demonstrate some fundamental problems, they just fall into the blind faith thing, and pick and choose what they like from their book... and snub their nose at people who do not believe as they do...
And there is millennia of history of oppression through religion. Athiests and polytheists are particularly despised in ALL monotheistic religions. They are always subject to death. To cry "I'm being oppressed" because someone snickers at the notion of the rather ridiculous story put forth by the bible is very ironic.
Bring up Scientology to a Christian and they find the notion of all evil being caused by negative thetans, which are supposedly spirits of murdered aliens by another evil alien (Xenu) 75 million years ago laughable... and openly mock them.
Bring up that little line I posted and suddenly Christians get all butt hurt. It is ridiculous.
I am not anti-anything. If you believe you are capable of honest exploration, I will discuss anything you like. If you are not, then you are afraid. Period. So don't mock the notion. Your faith is to weak to question your beliefs. Period.