friends help: I just spent the last few days in Tennessee listening to people talk about only two things, marriage and religion. - Help.com

i just want to get something in before the next athiest-christian war begins.

thats what you get in the south. thats all they talk about. seriously.

Talking to people who do not share your beliefs is really good. You’d either get to believe what they say OR take your stand on what you believe is real.

Liberal Powa!

Then you’ll feel at home here. With alot of teenage strife thrown in for good measure.

Oh my, you poor thing. Watch some family guy or something, try to get back on track.

Just out of curiosity…why 4 years? I’ve heard people say ‘oh they won’t last long’ or ‘ohhh I give them a year’…but most don’t pick an arbitrary value like that. I’d like to know the formula for that particular prediction of disaster, if possible.

hmmm…interesting. I’m glad I asked.

I actually live in hell, err, i mean Tennessee.

Probably the biggest thing i hate about living in the “bible belt” is that, according to most christians here, EVERYTHING is settled, or fixed, or answered by “well….God is good”

its the most ignorant, foolish, and useless belief system ever invented.
i hate it.

I feel for you dude. How did religion in general find itself in ‘control’ of so many things, like marriage, that don’t really need to have anything to do with it?

I’ve been living in North Carolina for a few years now; I could tell you horror stories. There’s an ENORMOUS religious high school (I seriously thought it was going to be an office complex or a mall when they were building it) across the street from the coffee shop I go to (until today, better shop opened in the other direction!) and listening to those kids in the morning is surreal.

Alexaxas wrote:
I feel for you dude. How did religion in general find itself in ‘control’ of so many things, like marriage, that don’t really need to have anything to do with it?

I’ve been living in North Carolina for a few years now; I could tell you horror stories. There’s an ENORMOUS religious high school (I seriously thought it was going to be an office complex or a mall when they were building it) across the street from the coffee shop I go to (until today, better shop opened in the other direction!) and listening to those kids in the morning is surreal.

In general, No dates, no names, etc etc.

Religion gained control during the period of time, when only royalty and “men of god” (monks, priests, popes, etc, etc) Could read. Thus reading became almost sacred, If you could read you pretty much told the truth.

And to boot, This is during a time when life is much more simple and morbid than it is today. Diseases running wild, Poverty is stupidly high, Living with your own waste on the streets, etc, etc, So stories of “Streets made of gold”, and A mansion just for you, behind white pearly gates for eternity, drew soooo many peasents and working class people into believeing it. Trouble is, Royalty saw the power that this had and the control of people it had, and took advantage, set out crusades and mass propoganda promoting it, Thus almost all of the population becomes religious.

Generation to generation its just been passed down, Bond between faith and man grows larger, b/c of the simple logic “Hey if people believed it 1000 years ago, it must be true”.

I too live in North Carolina, And the whole family on my dad’s side is this way, The best way I’ve come to deal with it, is to stand my ground, Because either one of two choices will happen 1) They stop talking to you (yay!) 2)They respect your beliefs (yay!)

Why you haven’t your oun religion?