The "Little People Argument"

[AlbertCat]

10. Pissing everyone off is not going to win the argument.

But some of the most neutral of statements piss everyone off. Some enter the "atheists are speaking their mind" scenario with a prefabricated "I hate atheists. They are after ME!"

You get the same thing with homophobes. They "just don't like you" even if you just made their daughter a beautiful wedding dress she is going gooey over....for a greatly reduced price. (could I be speaking from experience here?).


Anyway, religion's so egocentric. It's all about the believer and how they feel, in fact their feelings are so amazing, they ARE reality...for everyone...right? Besides religious people seem to LOVE to be mad at something. I'm always commenting on how Christians.... and Muslims... just seem to be pissed that other people live on the planet. They think they're persecuted in the US!

So in such a volatile aether, how do you know if you're gonna piss off someone or not? You can be as nice and logical as you want but....

As far as people dying. I simply remind the grieving that all the cares and worries, big and small, for the dead are over. I personally don't believe in an afterlife, but one thing you can be sure of, their troubles are over. (fuck hell!)