Just had to walk away from a conversation with my Dad. Not surprisingly, after my uncle died unexpectedly a few years ago he had a real check to his mortality. Moving to TX hasn't helped this, because churches are an easy way to be social. So he started going to church over the last few years.
He was having a conversation with MIL1 about how he's been looking at religion from the standpoint of an engineer... Yadda yadda. And how Christianity is the one he feels he fits in best with... Yadda yadda. So I asked if he's ready the bible yet, which he said he has not. "So if you haven't actually read the book on which the whole religion is based, how do you know if you actually agree with it? Or do you just agree with the parts that have been picked out and told to you?" He challenged me as to whether I have read it, which I have a few times, which has made me a vehemently atheist as I am today.
He tried to change topic about how the "non-moral" people have killed more and any other ever, but didn't like that I pointed out Hitler was German Christian, which was a Protestant sub-sect. Or that god* has wiped the earth clean of life multiple times, which is far more that any of the most despicable humans ever did.
So fucking frustrating that he's drifting down the 70y/o, falling into religion because of fear of death, track.
He was having a conversation with MIL1 about how he's been looking at religion from the standpoint of an engineer... Yadda yadda. And how Christianity is the one he feels he fits in best with... Yadda yadda. So I asked if he's ready the bible yet, which he said he has not. "So if you haven't actually read the book on which the whole religion is based, how do you know if you actually agree with it? Or do you just agree with the parts that have been picked out and told to you?" He challenged me as to whether I have read it, which I have a few times, which has made me a vehemently atheist as I am today.
He tried to change topic about how the "non-moral" people have killed more and any other ever, but didn't like that I pointed out Hitler was German Christian, which was a Protestant sub-sect. Or that god* has wiped the earth clean of life multiple times, which is far more that any of the most despicable humans ever did.
So fucking frustrating that he's drifting down the 70y/o, falling into religion because of fear of death, track.