Quote Originally Posted by bornatbirth View Post
wouldnt you prefer to talk to like minded people and avoid the religious topic?
Not really.

I'm always happy to listen to another point of view. (Usually the religious people aren't quite so accommodating of course ).

I didn't decide to be an atheist because of my lack of religious knowledge...on the contrary.

In fact RE was one of my best subjects at school, until the age of 16 I attended church every Sunday, and my grandfather was a Methodist Minister.

At some point in life you have to decide whether you're going to go along with the brain-washing or consider the subject objectively, and then draw your own conclusions. That's what I did.