| Farmageddon said: Sure, but what I meant was a bit more subtle than you walking in (on christmass eve he) and trying to de-evangelize them. Sometimes people will preach you, and your natural defense will be, in essence, to counter-preach. You're actually just trying to explain your position, but in doing so logically you are automatically making an argument for your point of view and against theirs, and that's a really bad idea. Of course it's a hard thing to avoid since if you do it wrong you'll just come of as either insecure about your disbelief or a coward, but knowing just how to avoid such a situation should make everything that much easier, and the key to that is understanding how tey will feel and why they will. And maybe a little white lie :P |
LOL, don't worry I won't come out at Christmas time (though it would be such an outrageous and funny thing to do). I'll have a little more diplomacy.
As for the counter-preaching part, it's been shown that polemic arguments only work when your audience is equipped with the necessasy knowledge to understand them and analyse them critically. From my personal experience I've found this to be true. I've noticed that most religious people ignore rational arguments, ultimately dismissing them with something along the line of "faith needs no argmunets", hence there's no point in me wasting my breath.
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