I have no problem with that.Having grown up in a religious household, gone to a religious school, and consequentially, most of my friends being religious, I can say that not one single one of them has ever preached or told people how to live their lives according to the bible. It's a choice that people make, barring the few who are truly indoctrinated, and they are few and far between in my experience.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Mon 17 May 2010, 12:26,
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I've had a couple of friends who were like thatPerfectly decent people in all other respects (well, naturally; I'd not be friends with them otherwise) but trying to convert me and pushing the Bible as absolute proof -- or ducking the question of literalism -- when it arose. But far more of my friends who were religious didn't do it.
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boris the spider,
Mon 17 May 2010, 12:34,
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