I Really Hate It When Family Won't Think Before They Speak

[TheBluegrassSkeptic]

So, on Facebook, I have many believing and non-believing friends and family. I tend to post things worth discussing amongst my non-believing friends and I on there to discuss and comment on. I have a cousin though. I've mentioned her before...she's a member of Reformer's Unanimous...hopeless cause, I know. It is frustrating though the actual idiocy she demonstrates on a regular basis. She just starts spouting scripture, doesn't BOTHER to read a single reference I post to even know if what she is posting is even remotely appropriate. Normally, people probably don't mind this. It makes for an easy demonstrable example, but I find it mildly embarassing because I do care about her.

 

Oh well, I called her out, and her friends who so haphazardly like everything she replies to me (without researching what I reference either), on the fact that I'm sick of the nitpicking of texts to win a fight. I pride myself on thoroughly referring to an entire chapter or even two, to keep a point in context. And I made an argument, which will probably fall on deaf ears, below...

 

[Positivist]

LOL! Really, that's quite humorous from the outside. For you, being on the inside, that would be frustrating! I'm going through something similar. I've tried responding to some neither-here-nor-there posts onto which fundies glom, trying to bring some sense into the conversation play with their minds. I'm not outed yet, so it's kind of fun playing devil's advocate.

[TheBluegrassSkeptic]

LOL! Really, that's quite humorous from the outside. For you, being on the inside, that would be frustrating! I'm going through something similar. I've tried responding to some neither-here-nor-there posts onto which fundies glom, trying to bring some sense into the conversation play with their minds. I'm not outed yet, so it's kind of fun playing devil's advocate.

 

Sounds like a good way to break them in on the idea you aren't on the Immortal Family Share Plan anymore...