And forced a concession that gods and deities are just imaginary human constructs fixed into the population by fear or by tradition, aided by unquestioning acceptance, and at the best what can be called "God" is nature, and that nature doesn't accept the whims and fancies of humans, regardless of how much they genuflect before positied mythological entities, and thus that renders all religions to the realm of superfluous belief, the debate started with him questioning why I hadn't undergone the Hindu rites of initiation (or the Upanayanam, for those who know a bit of Sanskrit) and we ended up with him accepting that people should keep their beliefs to themselves, and that they can be very dangerous after I pointed out how the Abrahamic faiths function, through fear and hatred...
Also got him accepting that methodological naturalism is the best way to come to decisions based on what we know of the natural world, he's promised to return sometime in the future to learn what Science has demonstrated about Monism and the brain being the source of all consciousness (Split brain patients et cetera)
I is cool innit?
