Daily Prompt: “It’s never a good idea to discuss religion or politics with people you don’t really know.” Agree or disagree?
Agree. It’s often not a good idea to discuss religion or politics with people you know either.
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
image via
And in South Africa at the bar after a rugby match, and I assume in the USA the same applies after a football or baseball match.
Pingback: Daily Prompt: Polite Company Discussing Religion or Politics??? | My Blog
Pingback: ARSENIC WORDS « hastywords
Pingback: Daily Prompt: Polite Company | That elusive pair of jeans
Pingback: Polite Company | Together we can make a difference