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My boyfriend and I are quite different. I am southern baptist while he is agnostic. Needless to say we have had some interesting conversations based off of the religion conversation.
First, when speaking to a "christian" you have to understand that the Bible is their foundation. The Bible will be used as a source of reference.
I have used the "read the Bible" phrase myself. Up until my current boyfriend came along, I never thought anything of it. If someone reads the Bible, in my mind that's that. They will read the Bible and understand where I come from discussion closed.
However, my current boyfriend messed up that philosophy of mine which is a good thing.
I've had to work on why I truly believe the way I do. He constantly comes at me with questions as to why I believe in a book that was, in this mind, written by some guy who wanted to have control of people. In his mind, the Bible is just a book that was written in order to have people do what you say. "I don't want people to kill each other, therefore I will write it in this book and they won't kill because they believe what is written in this book."
I think Christians get tired of having to defend their stance and because of this they refer people to read the Bible. It's their way of changing the subject.
People do not go around having discussions with atheists on why they do not believe in God, but they will have discussion with Christians on why they believe in a bible. After a while it gets old. I know I used the phrase "read the Bible" as a way of ending the discussion.
The way my boyfriend and I work now is: first we have decided to disagree on the subject, so now we do not go into the discussion trying to change each others mind, and second we respect each others belief.
Although, I am still working on the "read the Bible" phrase.
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