> You know what I really, really hate? People trying to change my religious beliefs. I just had a "conversation" with someone who was trying to pick apart and attack what I believe because she didn't agree with it. She insisted that my beliefs "aren't exactly all worked out quite yet", apparently because of my stance on God and the creation of the universe; she criticized me because I don't believe that the word "reality" really means anything, while at the same time ignoring me when I said that and then making absurd statements, based on my stance on the word "reality", that were supposedly what I believe ("reality doesn't exist?"); she derived things from what I said that did not logically follow what I said and then attacked those; and she concluded that I must have no thought or real beliefs because I didn't answer to her satisfaction any of her questions that hinged on the non-word "reality".

I have to agree with you; It's hard to walk down the high street in my home town on a weekend without being harangued by Christians of a dozen denominations trying to convince me that any form of belief that isn't *exactly* the same as theirs will be punished by eternal damnation.

What they don't seem to understand is that if I wanted to be a Christian, I would be by now. It's not as if Croydon is otherwise free of Christian influence.

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