Quote Originally Posted by truthpaste View Post
Your reaction to such things is inconsistent? Wanting to put a distance between yourself and a Christian?
Why would you want to dodge the subject of God, who isn't (in your sphere of understanding) actually there?
It seems that the “Christian” folk SF has come across are Christian in name only and have let him and his mother down in their time of need. This leads him to conclude that most (all?) Christians must be hypocrites, right wing, and the God they believe in is indifferent to the suffering in the world.

He presents the classic argument that God cannot be omnipotent otherwise he would step in and sort out the world's problems, forgetting that God came in the form of Jesus to show us the way to live (and that mankind has largely ignored his teaching) and the fact that we each have free will to do good or evil as we see fit. At the same time however he does not believe that this God exists and that Christianity is therefore nonsense.

Surprisingly he has offered to meet me as per your quote but God is not to be mentioned which leaves me a little bit hamstrung shall we say, as being a Christian defines my whole life, not a part of it, like some kind of hobby that I only do on a Sunday! Maybe he is afraid that he will discover that I am a caring, compassionate person who puts his faith into action and not just into words.