Atheists & Agnostics

OriginalGeek

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18. Yeah you'd think

Fri May 11, 2012, 06:40 PM

May 2012

he is VERY dyslexic...I wonder if that has something to do with it - he thinks left is right and right is left.

Because I don't believe there is malice in him. He's not a "typical rethug"...I know how many hours he works here (because I work a lot of the same ones) and I know he's going home tonight to help his Hispanic neighbor dig up a big-ass stump. (He speaks fluent Spanish from his time in South America) He brought that same neighbor over to my house one Saturday morning to help dig out my septic tank and replace the sump pump. For nothing. I've never heard him say a racist thing.

I just don't know exactly what to make of him - but I'm trying to make him a more liberal atheist. lol I wonder if he's never had a chance to be around other atheists - his wife is religious and conservative. he married her when they were young and before that he was with his missionary parents...

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So i just had a Marriage Equality argument with my Atheist, Conservative co-worker [View all] OriginalGeek May 2012 OP

uh huh. sure. ret5hd May 2012 #1

? OriginalGeek May 2012 #2

Not sure what you mean by this, so I won't tell you to fuck-off and get out of this safe-haven cleanhippie May 2012 #3

I mean, exactly, I don't believe his story. ret5hd May 2012 #4

I have no reason NOT to believe the story. cleanhippie May 2012 #5

uhhhh...okely dokely ret5hd May 2012 #6

As I stated already... cleanhippie May 2012 #7

do you mean call as telephone, or "call him on it" ? ret5hd May 2012 #8

Yeah, you should give him a call and have a chat. cleanhippie May 2012 #9

kinda my feeling also. ret5hd May 2012 #10

My apologies. cleanhippie May 2012 #11

I've posted a few times before OriginalGeek May 2012 #16

I met an atheist who believed that being pro-choice was inflicting my views on the anti-choicers... cynatnite May 2012 #13

Yep, I've met somebody like this as well. (nt) eqfan592 May 2012 #28

I've indeed met atheists who believed marriage was a purely religious rite... eqfan592 May 2012 #27

You'd think his head would explode from so much opposition occupying the same space. n/t cynatnite May 2012 #12

Yeah you'd think OriginalGeek May 2012 #18

It seems like the religous conservative aspects of his upbringing just stayed with him... cynatnite May 2012 #21

"How it used to be" in America frogmarch May 2012 #14

Yeah he didn't want to hear from me about any of that OriginalGeek May 2012 #17

Sounds like an Ayn Rand atheist, to me. daaron May 2012 #15

Just goes to show that "atheist"... rexcat May 2012 #19

I will admit to being as surprised OriginalGeek May 2012 #20

As humans we do have the tendency to stereotype... rexcat May 2012 #22

The concept of a Conservative Atheist is rather strange. BiggJawn May 2012 #23

RE: the OP's original description of his work mate edcantor May 2012 #24

I'd say that's entirely possible... OriginalGeek May 2012 #25

Thanks for your reply to my theory.... edcantor May 2012 #26