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  • 25-05-2009 2:07pm
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    Tim Robbins
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    Just saw some colourful, bohemian dude on Grafton Street wanting to give out CD / DVDs. He was telling me it was all about his group. I thought he was a musician so I was interested so I said I'd take it. Then he said can you give me a couple of quid and I said well I've no change and asked him a bit more about his group. He told me it was a radical Christian one.
    I smiled and said: "mate, I'm an atheist so it would be waste on me".

    We both laughed and I moved on.

    Great to meet someone who just accepted I was an atheist and didn't bother trying to bible bash or "save" me. I wished him good luck and we parted on good terms.


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    Zillah
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    I'd totally have taken it for my amusement.


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    Tim Robbins
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    Zillah wrote: »
    I'd totally have taken it for my amusement.

    I was staying in some gaf in Edinburgh at the weekend. It was an official B&B, just someone's house who rented out a room every now and again. Bible in the room, Bible in the Kitchen. How would you handle that?


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    kiffer
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    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    I was staying in some gaf in Edinburgh at the weekend. It was an official B&B, just someone's house who rented out a room every now and again. Bible in the room, Bible in the Kitchen. How would you handle that?

    Sounds like most Hotels I've ever been in...


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    robindch
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    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    How would you handle that?
    Swap them with korans?


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    Mickeroo
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    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    Just saw some colourful, bohemian dude on Grafton Street wanting to give out CD / DVDs. He was telling me it was all about his group. I thought he was a musician so I was interested so I said I'd take it. Then he said can you give me a couple of quid and I said well I've no change and asked him a bit more about his group. He told me it was a radical Christian one.
    I smiled and said: "mate, I'm an atheist so it would be waste on me".

    We both laughed and I moved on.

    Great to meet someone who just accepted I was an atheist and didn't bother trying to bible bash or "save" me. I wished him good luck and we parted on good terms.

    Seriously, it might have been Jesus!!


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    Malari
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    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    I was staying in some gaf in Edinburgh at the weekend. It was an official B&B, just someone's house who rented out a room every now and again. Bible in the room, Bible in the Kitchen. How would you handle that?

    I've put them in the bin before. In a hotel, not a B&B. That might be a bit rude :pac:


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    Tim Robbins
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    Malari wrote: »
    I've put them in the bin before. In a hotel, not a B&B. That might be a bit rude :pac:

    I wrote on a slip of paper "This book is probably not true" and then placed it at the beginning of Genesis, one time for one left in a hotel.

    But this was someone's house so I just ignored them.


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    The Mad Hatter
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    robindch wrote: »
    Swap them with korans?

    Or copies of The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy?


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    kiffer
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    Malari wrote: »
    I've put them in the bin before. In a hotel, not a B&B. That might be a bit rude :pac:

    ... You can't put a book in a bin! that's almost a sin... like burning books, or writing in the margins ... or bending the spine ...


    I like the idea of slipping in slips of paper with notes on it though. I'll bring a block of post-it notes with me next time I'm going to be in a hotel... maybe some pamphlets on other religions and humanism... just to round things out a little.


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    The Mad Hatter
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    kiffer wrote: »
    ... You can't put a book in a bin! that's almost a sin... like burning books, or writing in the margins ... or bending the spine ...

    Yes! You understand!:D:D


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    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,960 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    kiffer wrote: »
    I like the idea of slipping in slips of paper with notes on it though. I'll bring a block of post-it notes with me next time I'm going to be in a hotel... maybe some pamphlets on other religions and humanism... just to round things out a little.
    If there was one book that represented my atheist views well, I'd put on the post it, the name of the book and suggest they read it.

    While they are some good atheists books out there, there isn't one that I feel really captures all the arguments in an intelligent manner. Closest is "Why I am not Christian?" by BR.


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    MrPudding
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    kiffer wrote: »
    ... You can't put a book in a bin! that's almost a sin... like burning books, or writing in the margins ... or bending the spine ...


    I like the idea of slipping in slips of paper with notes on it though. I'll bring a block of post-it notes with me next time I'm going to be in a hotel... maybe some pamphlets on other religions and humanism... just to round things out a little.
    Agreed. I have a thing about people abusing books myself, be it factual books or even works of fiction like the bible.

    MrP


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    Mickeroo
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    MrPudding wrote: »
    Agreed. I have a thing about people abusing books myself, be it factual books or even works of fiction like the bible.

    MrP

    Ooooh, sweet burn. :pac:


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    Malari
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    kiffer wrote: »
    ... You can't put a book in a bin! that's almost a sin... like burning books, or writing in the margins ... or bending the spine ...

    I feel this way about books too, but it's only the bible, it's not a real book. Something tells me it wouldn't have stayed there beyond room-cleaning time.


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