On Politics and Religion at the dinner table.

There's a good reason one should never talk about religion or politics, ever.

It does not matter how kind you are.
It does not matter how sensitive towards other's feelings or cultures or fetishes you are.
I don't care if you tell them what they want to hear when they want to hear it.
I don't care if you read both sides of the story and interpret every piece of statistical or irrational data before making a decision.
Crunching numbers will never affect it.
Near death experiences won't change it.
Not taking your Lithium, hmm.. well, that might have a slight effect.

The bottom line with religion and politics is that the moment you choose a side, every other side is automatically wrong.

Now, in politics this does not apply so much, for the sheer reason that you can compromise. You can say "If you let me kill babies, I'll let you kill prisoners." Everyone's happy! For now, I'm going to let politics off the hook.

You cannot be Christian and think Islam is ok. You can't be Atheist and tell the Wiccans you don't think there spells are stupid. Buddha may respect all, but he still thinks your creation myths are full of bullshit. And Agnostics? You may as well tell people you're bisexual. I mean, seriously. Make up your mind already, you look silly.

By accepting (or not accepting) faith of any religion into your life, you have to say that the others are wrong. There is no compromise, it's all or nothing.

So stop talking about it already!

You're never going to convert the Atheists out there with your pamphlets, and no matter how many times you say "Darwin" the Mormons aren't going to scratch their heads and tell you you have a point, there. Only people who love Jesus care if Jesus loves you. And you'll never convince anyone without a light saber that becoming a Jedi is the true path.

When you fill your head with glee at making fun of that Christian for his beliefs, know he's laughing at you cause you're going to burn in hell. In my opinion you're both assholes.