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//You are never going to make an atheist out of me, or anybody with similarly robust beliefs//
And WHY would I want to?
I have religious friends. Its not a problem.
When it becomes a problem is when they insist that the Bible is true and reliable & we cant have a discussion about it, THEN we have a problem!
When they insist that I am some kind of reprobate, THEN we have a problem!
When they say that my loved ones are burning in Hell, THEN we have a problem!
When religious people who claim to be friends, ****off for no reason other than that they claim that they cant be friends any longer because I dont believe as they do then I have a problem.
As it is, I still have religious (& even evangelical) friends.
Glad to have got rid of the self righteous out of my life.
(Also have a lot of non religious friends...thank God!)