Not sure how to deal w it. He was a fun guy to work with. He's a good person, but pretty crazy. This is the second time he decided he reeeeallly had to make a hard sell. I'm agnostic. I feel like it's gonna really offend him bc he sent me paragraphs about the religious text and I simply don't care. But I don't wanna hurt his feelings. This time... Science proves it.
Can I have it both ways? I'm not gonna be an Islamic but I still wanna be his friend. but he's being so weird about it and I'm bad about confrontation. I'm cool with his choices but damn
I haven’t seen the messages, but it could be he’s taken your “not wanting to hurt his feelings” as being more interested/receptive than you are.
I was told:
I think it's too crazy and like the other user said, worthy of abandoning
Well, if you want to see if keeping him as a friend is possible, just respond with:
You: I'm not interested in religion, and won't engage in conversation about it.
Friend: blah blah meaningful blah religion blah.
You: I'm not interested in religion, and won't engage in conversation about it.
Friend: panicked or something religion blah blah convincingness blah, manuscripts, manuscripts.
You: I'm not interested in religion, and won't engage in conversation about it.
<cycle repeats until>
Friend: gives up and is just friend Or Former friend: freaks out or ends friendship
Ok that's good. That's what I'll be doing. Seems obvious, but really it's not when you're in the moment and you're a coward like me.
Little braveries keep the world turning. But every one is hard in the moment.
Oh no, does this person think you're quite religious?
nope, it hasn't come up in months
The book is old and unchanged!
Next he'll be convinced that an honourable merchant who did nothing wrong sold poor quality copper just because the tablet of his customers' complaint still exists thousands of years later.
Honestly I know very little outside of Christianity so your reference is way over my head
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir
Yeah that is solid but will absolutely be countered in a way I cannot fully articulate a response to. That's his thing now. I have a really hard time researching this and then coming up with a conclusion, so I hope you will help me with my response so I do not offend him lol.
edit: had no clue it's a meme, I am even more screwed
I was making a joke about the idea that because something is old and remains accurate to the original, it must necessarily be true.
This line of argument might be persuasive to a Christian who is concerned about the accuracy of the Bible after so many translations, but the Quran is not even very old compared to other written works.
We have extensive hieroglyphic descriptions of ancient Egyptian religion but that doesn't mean someone ought to began worshipping Ra and Osiris, for example.
He just said this out of the blue?
literally out of nowhere