VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1359804804|CONTENT|I can&#039;t stand this man&#039;s patronising tone of voice. Am I alone?

He seems to me to be coming from the angle: &quot;Once you&#039;ve heard all the arguments for and against, it&#039;s a no-brainer that you will immediately know that of course Christianity is the best.&quot;

Had a discussion on this very topic with my father yesterday at the bedside of my sick mother, when he said to me: &quot;I really do hope you regain your faith.&quot; But after I&#039;d explained my rejection of religion on the grounds of intellectual honesty, and that I also rejected Pascal&#039;s Wager as a legitimate argument (&quot;How do you know you&#039;ve picked the right one?&quot;) and that the uniqueness of the philosophical tenets that underpin Christianity are morally unacceptable to me (&quot;The fact that whatever you do you can say sorry and it will all magically be all right can lead to an abrogation of responsibility&quot;) I had to shut up as the old man was getting apoplectically angry, which would not have done my mother any good at all, had she been aware of her surroundings.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|176.27.245.30|MODERATIONFLAG|