Went to yahoo! answers for some recommendations of books for young Christians. What do I get? Buch of links to "The God Delusion" and similar. I rather expected this, actually. It's the internet. More specifically, it's a community which seems to harbor a suspicious amounts of idiots and trolls in general. But y'know what really, really bothers me?
People say Christians, Catholics, Mormons, and ect are the only ones who try to force their beliefs on others.
Yeah, there's lots of us who are obnoxious and fanatical. I get it. I've seen it. It's depressing and I apologize to the human race on behalf of it. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
But please stop acting like it's just us.
I'm pretty sure it's human nature in general to try to get someone to come 'round to your way of thinking. Sometimes this is not pulled off well. No, most of the time, rather. I've had beliefs pushed on me, too! It's universal, and it's stupid, and we'll probably always do it unless we can pull together and go all TOS-Federation and stuff.

And another thing. No, we're not persuaded anymore. Not in any sense of the word. Freedom of religion, of course, and that's how it should be. But I do get picked on for it. And actually saying anything about it will get people tossing rocks at me 'cause I'm being whiny, which is perhaps true, but really, it's not like others don't complain about it too. There's lots of scorn directed this way and some of it's deserved but not all of it. Which, grant you, Christians probably give to others also. Sorry, like I said, we're not perfect. Human, remember? It can be hard to see other people's point of view.

And yet another thing is, why does religion always have to get so nasty? Can we not discuss this intellectually without insults or personal attacks or belittling tones from either end? Seriously, fights break out everywhere, but it being such a heated topic is unpleasant.


Please don't flame me for saying all this, because everyone has got to rant some times and I'm tired of being a coward about it.
(But if you feel I've phrased anything impolitely, I apologize. That was not my intention.)