I really need help.... I have a foreign* exchange boy living with me for this school year. he is a atheist.
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What you need to do is...
Honestly... >_<
If you do that, you are breaking the contract your parents signed to be able to host foreign exchange students. You are NOT supposed to preach or proselytize, or try to convert them.
He isn't trying to convince you of his beliefs, so STFU!
Here's the help I would offer...
Be an exchange student yourself. Go live in another country for a year. Learn something. Then come back when you have gained a little perspective. You know, that you MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.
Damn 16 year olds. Think they know everything.
"If you can't give a good answer, pray."
Despite Augustine, despite Aquinas, despite the energetic efforts of "theologians" (a unitary oxymoron if there ever was one) for two millennia, there you have encapsulated the sum total of Christian cosmology and epistemology.
Damn it kid, you're making us all look stupid in his eyes.
Pray for some instructions on how to be civil.
I have no idea what his religion is because I have no idea what he's saying. He doesn't look brown so he can't be a Muslim or all those other brown people religions. He must be an atheist.
You really need to shut the fuck up and stop pestering others with your beliefs.
@Boing: I'm also an international student in America, thank the FSM I don't live with fundies.
It is however, even more horrifying when one of those said exchange students BECOMES a fundie. I can only imagine how she's going to go back to our Muslim-majority country.
Fucking 16 years-olds. You know nothing of the world outside of your home and school (and in this case, church) leave the poor kid alone and STFU till you've done some maturing.
I'm 20, and i know i've still got a fuck-load to learn. The only thing i'm sure of is that there is no god!
Jesus Klingon- What a load of ageist crap! I've been debating religion and researching it since I was 15. It's part of the reason I loathe organized religion in the first place.
If you disagree with him, fine, but leave the ignorant ageism out of it.
(speaking as to her:)
he's a guest in your home.
Your responsibility is to look to his comfort, accommodate any different cultural practices while pointing out those that could embarrass, and be polite. If he wants to talk about belief then you can, but learn to shut up when you're getting annoying.
He can't escape your home for various reaasons, but he can report back how unsuitable you are to host students. It could mean a black mark on your permanent record
I'm sure he is sorry that he got assigned to your house for his stay in America.
I didn't think trying to convert someone to said religion is part of the exhange program. Leave him alone and be a gracious host.
Give him every Jack Chick tract there is. This will convince him that you posess a wisdom beyond mere human mortals, and you must therefore be in contact with god.
Or you could call god on the phone and have him talk to your guest.
His parents may have something to say about your interference in his non-religious/atheist stance, especially if he's European. So just mind your own business. You don't NEED to do anything. Presumably your parents are taking money for his bed and board. They are not being paid, or asked, to allow you to indoctrinate him with what are, when all is said and done, YOUR opinions.
If you go ahead with this, I hope your parents are barred from all future programmes for hosting foreign students.
Just mind you own business and leave him alone. Otherwise I believe what you are proposing could constitute a breach of care on your parents' part. It would clearly be an opportunistic attack on his right to freedom of thought, especially as he is a minor - even if you are a minor yourself.
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