Posted: Mar 17, 2017 9:34 am
Unfortunately you're right. While the rest of us are prepared to accept that people can do whatever they want in private, when it comes to religion, it seems that has to be preached. Disappointing when you meet someone you think is fairly intelligent only to find their mind is completely closed when it comes to religion. This happened to me yesterday. I was introduced to a young woman who a friend has known since forever. She is visiting the country from Europe, so I "had" to meet her. The conversation which was going really well, came to religion, and then it came: you should read this book, I do think it's good for kids to think of their grandparents as being somewhere they'll see them again when they die, blah blah blah, and immediately my desire to continue talking to her disappeared, and I "had" to go to attend to the real world. Really annoying. They just can't keep the preaching out of their social discourse.