“I just totally owned an Athiest Co-Worker.”
He’s THE athiest of all your athy coworkers?
“Ok first of all, I know it's not right to be prideful,”
Not right, huh? Isn’t it a sin?
“but he was so arrogant about his dis-belief in God, and that anybody who did believe was 'mentally unstable' and needed to be 'kept away from "decent folks"'”
You’re sure he was THAT sweeping? ALL theists are unstable?
“We got into a discussion in the break room, and the subject came up to God, and he knows I am a Christian. He said 'How can you believe in something you have never seen before... you don't even know that God exists. You think he does, based on what some stupid book (the Bible) says, but you can never know for sure.”
Okay. So how DO you know?
“So I used his own logic against him.”
Ah. Can’t answer the question, attack the questioner.
“ I said 'And by that token, you can't prove Christopher Columbus existed, because you've never seen him.”
Well, no. To use his words, you should have ASKED how he knows Columbus existed. And he’d tell you.
“He just rolled his eyes and said 'Anybody with a brain cell... even you can't tell me he didn't exist. Everybody knows he left Spain and discovered the New World.”
Um, no, I really doubt that’s what he said. I thinkthis conversation took place in your mind.
He would have listed the corroborating evidence, the numerous accounts, and the impact on history, not anonymous accounts by ‘eyewitnesses’ sixty to seventy years after the events.
“I just smiled and said 'But you don't know for sure.”
But we do. The historicity of Columbus is not in doubt.
And you never answered the question.
“You're just going by what the history books have said unless you see it for yourself, there is no way you can prove it. Those were your exact words' .”
Your chance to tell him what convinced you and you pretend that his history is as subjective as your superstition.
“He didn't like me putting his own words back to him, so he just left and didn't speak to me for the rest of the day.”
Yeah, no. You made a completely invalid comparison.
And I think this is all stuff you WISH you’dsaid in the break room…