What if you just convinced your best friend that his faith was misleading him... what if you destroyed a driving force in someone's life... do you feel good for presenting the truth? do you feel bad for causing another's pain? do you rejoice at setting someone's mind free? do you mourn the loss of someone's security? do you wonder if you have the right to challenge?
I don't think you can really destroy someone's view of the world without their own consent. So no, I wouldn't feel bad; if they chose to allow the fact of knowing the 'truth' to ruin their lives, that would be their own doing. I would be happy if they took it in a positive direction. I wouldn't mourn the loss of their security; I would celebrate it. I think we all have the right to challenge eachother. It's what should keep us thinking and evolving.
can you prove god doesn't exist? can he prove he does? y'all have equal footing.... you should have perhaps shown your friend enlightened people of their religion, not assumed archetypes and set at doing what so many atheists accuse so many religious people of doing....
misleading him how? I mean, killing people definitely bad. Making him disagree with you on a socio/political level but not acutally harming anyone, you have no right to try and change his religion/faith system
Idk... Truth sucks sometimes, and I wonder why I embrace it. But something tells me it's ultimatley the most rewarding thing to embrace right now in this Earth life. Something brought ME to truth, no doubt...some force, through my whole life was watching and occasionally tweeking things to guide me. So, I don't know if it's right to try to enact a force to enlighten, or let the force chose who it will. Many people drop acid and find God and they were not chosen, or were they??? Good question, I dont know. I dont know shit really...
No one truely knows who is "right" or "wrong" about faith. Maybe YOU'RE wrong and HE'S right...and you're actually lying to him. Ever think about that? I can't stand know-it-alls.
