A realization

I came to the conclusion. Actually a few conclusions. I now know with more certainty than ever that I know nothing about talking to people - no sense of tact what-so-ever. I can be given little hints and even great big hints that any moron should understand but I still manage to pursue a subject that makes a person uncomfortable. Or even insults them. Or worse - makes people sad. I did that recently and I felt terrible. I really need to make sure that in the future my remarks and questions are better formulated and understood equally . . .

The second and by a degree more important realization was that I never again want to discuss morality of a religion with a person that is a part of that religion. Poor misguided sheep. I really feel sad for all these people. Most religious people I know are very good people, but they never realise they're living a lie. They follow a book that's rubbish - describing a fairytale. . . And they take that fairytale as pure gold. Let me give you an example - using Christianity, as I know more about that religion than the others. In Genesis - the first book of The Old Testament - (remember - it's supposed to be taken literally because it's their sacred book) it is said as a remark, that "that time giants still roamed the Earth". Ok, really now... Giants? Be serious for a second. The second example - Adam and Eve - right? They were given the task to "be plentiful and fulfil the Earth and multiply"... OK, so far, so good. The problem arrives quickly enough - Their first children were boys. "And they married and multiplied and populated the Earth." Am I the only one to realise the obvious mistake in that story? So, ok, let's say all the children were either having sex with their parents or brothers and sisters . . . So, that's your great teaching, Christians? That we are all the descendants of a bunch of incestuous motherfuckers? Not really like the best beginning to "The Holy Book" . . . Then again - The Bible can't be taken literally, because people lived to be 800+ years old. There were giants roaming the globe. There were boats that were big enough to carry two of all the animals of the Earth . . . except that there was only one window to that boat . . . it's says so in the Bible - "Noah opened THE window that God had asked him to build" Right.

Let's have no more about it. Never again will I debate with religious people about their faith. I can't talk to them about it - it makes me so sad. Especially sad is the case of my sister, but that's another, private, story.