Yifes: “Did you even watch the video or read the original post? The video's premise is that the narrator and her family are past the point of civil disagreement. And for that, I find this video useful and good. But if I were a young person (or even an older person) who was dealing with the non-stop proselytization of family members, seeing that video might help springboard me into having the conversation on my own terms. Not sure I would actually SHOW this video to someone in order to make a point with them about how they are interacting with me. She had hurt feelings for a month or so, and then finally settled down into a conversation mode which lets us know each other without the constant "but you aren't part of a church" background all the time. She wasn't getting all into bad science and stuff with her conversations with me, but for 20 years after the pastor at their church (of which I was also a member) kicked me out of the congregation for being homosexual, she would routinely insert little knives into our conversation about the church and all the supposedly wonderful things happening there.Īfter 20 years of this, and my repeated recounting of the scenario which led to me no longer participating in her belief system (and her not taking my gentle reminders as the "shut up about this" they were intended to be), I finally had to be a bit harsh and firm with her about the way she was laying her patented years-long guilt trip on me. I've actually had to have this conversation with my mother. Why is this more about what the believer believes than the Thinking Atheist? That thinking Athiest sure thinks about believers a lot.īecause this is about what believers are subjecting the atheist to in the name of caring for a non-believing family member. Maybe these two things could be pulled apart from one another, and videos could be made for each of them. The shrill tone probably weakens the rhetorical appeal of the argument that belief in religion is unsupportable. The shrill tone is appropriate for telling abusive family members to butt out of your business. It is also trying to provide a number of reasons that belief in religion is unsupportable. It is trying to respond to overbearing and overstepping family members who continually barge into a person's life, insisting that their lack of religious belief means that they are damned to hell and that they are a bad person. I believe this is trying to do two things at once, and that its execution of each of those things is weaker as a result. When I watched it, I was taken aback at the Scientology-commerical music and the defensive tone. Almost everyone who has responded to this has said that it irritates them.
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