Posted by:
rander70
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Date: November 18, 2013 06:25PM
So, my sister’s boyfriend of 5 years now is openly atheist, and I am using the term “openly” softly. He’s down right outspoken, rub-it-in-your-face atheist. You all know what I mean. The kind that make ALL atheists look like pompous assholes. I am agnostic myself, but I hate the way he makes atheist look! His arrogance is abundant on facebook and it bothers my super TBM sister to the bone!
I didn’t have a problem with him before until about two months ago when he lost his job and now uses being an arrogant atheist prick on facebook as his job. Up until that point, him and my sister were getting into a lot of heated arguments. I had to calm my sister down because she was getting overly-emotional about it. It worked, but since then its like he is retaliating with childish posts as if to say “Neener neener neener! I won!” It upsets me because it shows he has a great lack of understanding. He has never been religious, he’s never been BRAINWASHED like I have.
I really don’t care that he is open about it, in fact I applauded it before he turned arrogant about it. This is not only hurting my family who are TBMs, most of them are sweet ones, mind you… but it’s also harming the reputation for all atheists out there. This does absolutely nothing for religious people. In fact, I know when I was religious and saw an atheist like this I would hold TIGHTER to my faith because I felt he/she was being an open threat! It’s really not helping anybody actually. I am trying to lovingly, and quietly draw my family away from the church but his energy is not helping, it’s repelling the idea of detaching from the church.
Ive had heated arguments with him before and he gets extremely personal and emotional like revealing that he cuts and he is suicidal in public when we were just having a conversation about tattoos. DAMN! Calm down! Right?? I can tell that he is extremely bothered by closed-minded people, and so am I! I plan on dedicating my LIFE to opening minds! I get it.. but he just goes about it the wrong way. Sigh. Sorry, just had to vent. What do you think guys? Should I say something to him even though the conversation may get ridiculous?