Comments on: Atheist’s weapons http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2008/03/26/atheists-weapons/ Discussions of religion and ethics from an atheist perspective Mon, 06 May 2013 16:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Caitlin http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2008/03/26/atheists-weapons/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Caitlin Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.iamanatheist.com/blog/2008/03/26/atheists-weapons/#comment-288 My line is usually, “My faith is weak.” This has the benefits of:

(1) Being literally true. My faith is not, in fact, strong enough to overwhelm my reason.

(2) Impossible to argue with. What are they going to say? “No! You have strong faith!”

(3) It is acceptable to nearly any religion, since you don’t specify exactly what your faith is in.

The typical responses to this are sympathy or an invitation to the congregation. (For some reason, very few attempt to ‘save’ me) No snappy comeback required, just a “Thanks, but I can manage on my own”.

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