Baggins, is mutual hatred of Bush enough to underpin a friendship? Sounds unhealthy to me bro.
If that were the case, you'd be getting "X has invited you to join his network of friends" messages from 95% of the world's population!
And yes, of course we don't know what the guy's Nutter Quotient is, but I'm running with what little we've been told. I do, however, find this near-30 year-old's virginity and his recent conversion to Christianity to be suspiciously complimentary. The true Nutter invariably suffers from some torment that both causes and is relieved by the born-again experience. The feeling of relief and the need to preserve it, in part explain the obnoxious evangelism of these guys.
pisser, to be honest, I think any belief in gods is insane yes; but religions come in all flavors and some are much more benign than others. The born-again truly crazies - those that think every word of the Bible is literally true - think Episcopalians to be no better than atheists, for instance. Everyone thinks their own religion is perfectly reasonable, but that all the others are nuts - well they're all nuts.
But the big difference among these people is personality. The Nutter is militantly in-your-face and utterly impervious to reason, and they are insufferable to be around. I know this from extensive experience in the States. Also, I'm a well-known member on another forum that sees constant battles between atheists and Nutters, and those two groups really don't speak the same language; for instance, the terms
truth,
evidence, and
know are understood in completely different ways.
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