You know, it's kinda funny, what people will do to hold on to their religion.

I just gave a passage in the bible and read it aloud to a friend who is not on my side in the debate over a certain religious topic. To give you a non-biased equivalent metaphor wherin I've replaced the issue in debate with a math problem:

Me: 2+2 is 4.
Him: No, it isn't.
Me: Look, Jesus says, "2+2 is 4."
Him: Jesus isn't being literal.
Me: Actually he is being literal, because then the people listening say 'that can't be right' and leave. Jesus lets them go and simply restates his position three or four times. He doesn't call them back and correct them or anything, and then asks if his apostles would also like to leave. (Peter says no, obviously)
Him: Jesus isn't being literal.


The ironic thing is that if I'm right (which even a logical aetheist would tell you, I am) my friend would have to realize his religion is wrong, and the only religion he could convert to that follows this true belief happens to be my religion, as well as the religion of more than a billion others. (Hint: It's not Islam....so go figure it out)

He therefore is forced to turn to the most illogical arguments that a pre-k kid would see holes in. When I go drop an H-Bomb in those holes, he reverts to arguments that are SO SILLY you can't refute them. It's like saying that the moon landings were faked. No matter what you tell those people, they always come up with something like how the astronaut movements supposedly look like someone jumping on earth and then slowed down (supposedly in NASA's filming studio).

And all in the name of keeping on to a major anchor in his life. I can see that, but sometimes it's good to abandon ship.