at the pub take two

My conversation about religion with Jed was a long and at times heated one. We went for the big questions, such as 'are you sure you're a Christian and not an agnostic?' and 'how can any text that's been tampered with by human hands be seen to be infallible gospel?'.

I'm not even gonna try and repeat it here because Jed is very well-read and I'm very tired and can't remember the details of what was said.

Our conclusion was that it's not God I have doubts about, it's people. It's religion that pisses me off, what people make it, what people have made it.

I love these conversations, really getting into it and working it down until you can't go any further without a mutual concession or some kind of surrender.

Jed mentions that one of his aims in life is never to be lost in a conversation. To have something to say, no matter how banal or irrelevant about absolutely anything. Imagine that, if you had something to say about everything. Sit yourself down next to anyone on earth and bam, you've got yourself a conversation. No one in the world who you couldn't relate to.

Such an unattainable but wonderful goal to have.