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You could always send him a thank you note, accompanied by the book 'On the origin of species'.
This +1!! LOL!
I would be annoyed too OP. I'm non-religious, agnostic really and if someone who knew this about me and still gave me a bible, I would absolutely treat it as a passive aggressive way of trying to convert me. I would just ignore his "gift" and if he brings it up, just mention that you aren't interested and change the subject.
Seriously? Throwing the Bible in the trash? Pooping on it? Instead of sending the Bible to you as a gift, your brother should have thrown it at you and spritzed you with some holy water to exorcise the devil out of you.
Maybe you, as an apparent believer, don't understand what it takes for someone to become an atheist if one was taught a religion. It takes a lot of thought and it takes the strength to deprogram oneself and set oneself free from the pressures from family and friends to conform. To have a believer come along and start sending bibles is about as rude as it can get. In fact, it's a dick move.
pulleezee !!
It's not like he is an alcoholic and the brother sent a 6 pack..
I am a believer and if a family member sent atheist books I would not read them but I wouldn't lose sleep over it either...
Seriously? Throwing the Bible in the trash? Pooping on it? Instead of sending the Bible to you as a gift, your brother should have thrown it at you and spritzed you with some holy water to exorcise the devil out of you.
This is going to happen a lot more times in your life. Might as well get use to it. If this one instance has troubled you so badly I hate to see what the future holds for you.
What a odd thing to say. Something even remotely like this has only happened a couple times in my adult life. But you seem the sort to do such weird things.
You got the analogy wrong. Should be: It's not like he's and alcoholic and his brother sent him an AA book.
Donate it. Pass it on. There are needy people all over.
There have been times in my life when I would say "I will never...." - well, never say never. What you believe in your 30's may not be so when you are 50. You never, ever know, truly.
Your brother reached out to you; it's not your thing; maybe someday you'll think differently; you just never know. No judgment.
Sometimes, I'm glad I have to work so much so I don't think too hard about why people do things. Believe me, I wish I had back all the times I worried about such and such and liked, who cared? Really? Who really remembered even?
You got the analogy wrong. Should be: It's not like he's and alcoholic and his brother sent him an AA book.
No, I got it right for the point I was making...
The post was saying that it takes a lot of thought & strength & deprogramming to become an atheist.
It's as if sending the Bible is somehow going to "tempt" you back away from that..
Which means you don't get it either and your comments are pretty useless in response to mine.
I gave the exact example of the sides being flipped..
Me getting an atheist book...
Why is an atheist getting a Bible so different than a
Christian getting an atheist book ???
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Which means you don't get it either and your comments are pretty useless in response to mine.
My gosh, if it offends you that much....
