Comments on: Don’t Pray For Me, Argentina. http://www.godispretend.net/2006/06/dont-pray-for-me-argentina/ A collection of thoughts on the lie that is religion. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: andrea http://www.godispretend.net/2006/06/dont-pray-for-me-argentina/comment-page-1/#comment-4 andrea Sun, 18 Jun 2006 01:06:00 +0000 http://godispretend.net/?p=5#comment-4 One day in college I answered the door to find two students taking a survey about religion. I pleasantly agreed to take it and invited them in. After some basic demographic questions, they asked "Do you believe in god?" I simply said "no." They both stared at me, shocked, like I had just said I enjoy roasting kittens in the microwave. Why this reaction? Because I seemed like a nice person and didn't fit the stigma attached to atheism. Well, I am a nice person AND an atheist, and I hope they realized that day that the two are not mutually exclusive. I still get this all the time. I can't tell you the number of times my beliefs have prompted a "Really?? I never would have guessed that about you." I enjoy it though--it's somewhat satisfying to challenge people's prejudices, even if you will never see eye to eye on religion.<br/><br/>"If you can tell me what to think, I can tell you where to go." <br/>--Unknown One day in college I answered the door to find two students taking a survey about religion. I pleasantly agreed to take it and invited them in. After some basic demographic questions, they asked “Do you believe in god?” I simply said “no.” They both stared at me, shocked, like I had just said I enjoy roasting kittens in the microwave. Why this reaction? Because I seemed like a nice person and didn’t fit the stigma attached to atheism. Well, I am a nice person AND an atheist, and I hope they realized that day that the two are not mutually exclusive. I still get this all the time. I can’t tell you the number of times my beliefs have prompted a “Really?? I never would have guessed that about you.” I enjoy it though–it’s somewhat satisfying to challenge people’s prejudices, even if you will never see eye to eye on religion.

“If you can tell me what to think, I can tell you where to go.”
–Unknown

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