re: #1089 motorcycleboy

Nice try, but I think you probably have criteria for ‘close friendships’.

Heck, you might even have a preference for who you marry, I dunno. Does that mean you’re intolerant? Gimme a break.

Yeah, I do. They don’t try to lie to or about me, steal from me, defraud me, hurt or kill me, rape my female family or friends, or kill me, my friends or my family. They fight alongside me to keep me or my friends or family from being raped, killed, or stolen from. They defend me to others from slanders they know to be untrue. They do what they can to help me when I need it and it’s not too much trouble for them. And for them to do so even when not asked would be nice.

And of course I do the same for them. That’s part of what friendship is all about. I have friends who are atheists, and there are self-proclaimed Christians, such as Jeremiah Wright, Fred Phelps and Alan Keyes, who I wouldn’t spit on if they were on fire.