Why do you feel compelled to change her beliefs? Are they hurting her in some way?

For starters, you should check out Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation. It's a really short read. If you can get her to start that, its purpose is just what you're talking about. (or his other book End of Faith, but you might want to start with Letters, it looks small and harmless )

From there, it depends what she clings to I suppose.

Richard Carrier's introspective on why he isn't Christian is a good read: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/whynotchristian.html

Also this web page probably has some good stuff to print out: http://www.godisimaginary.com/

 

Actually, it's much better if a couple agrees on the big stuff, otherwise you're just wasting a lot of money on nagging and silly arguments for the sake of a little ass. You may not be able to "fix" her, but there's plenty of other hers out there.

I hate to say this but if you can't respect her you shouldnt' be with her.  If you don't want her to talk to you about her beliefs, that could be a very serious problem as far as communicating with her.  It sounds to me like you are openly rejecting the idea of respectfully discussing her beliefs with her.

If your conversations are resorting to fights and anger it is likely that you both are not listening to each other.  If your post here is any account, then I think I am right in suggesting that you are not at least appreciating her beliefs and you openly state that you don't want to hear about them.

If you want to be able to have a rational discussion with her you have to be able to appreciate and respect the reasons for her beliefs, which are usually very simplistic and understandable when it comes to people who have this sort of half-belief.  It's a product of fear of the unknown (whether they openly recognize that or not). 

By pressing on an issue you're pressing on her about issues that she doesn't understand and she will be defensive about.  Open discussion and communication is neccessary on both sides.  More importantly though, if you are trying to convince someone of an idea, you should be particularly sensitive to the things that will cause them to become defensive.

 Anyways, just my 2 cents.

By this logic.. no one who has respect, deserved it.  Unless, of course, they had it before they were even conceived.

 Q: Give me that piece of candy!

X: If you deserved it, you'd have it.

Q: So did you deserve it before you had it?

X: By my logic? No.

Of course.. maybe he was just making a joke. Heh.

And it's statements like that which make me not respect folks like Pat Condell. Anyone who insists that you proceed from a position of disrespect is being foolishly antagonistic. It is far more productive and efficient to proceed from a position of respect until people give you cause to no longer respect them. 

Is your girlfriend hot? If so, you better just go along with whatever she believes if you want to keep having sex with her. If you ever decide to break up with her, then tell her what you really think of her beliefs.

 

Religion has become a way for one gender to dominate the other. In the west, Christianity is pretty much a tool for women to dominate men. In the Islamic world, religion is a tool for men to dominate women.

 

 

Here's my 2c:
There's a reason why people treat religious beliefs differently to factual beliefs. In factual beliefs we require evidence and religious beliefs have a different value?
Why? The same reason why we use a hammer differently to the saw - the hammer has a heavy head to hit things with and the saw has sharp edges to cut things with.

Facts about the world we use in a practical way that depends on their accuracy. If we want that plane to fly we need to construct it based on an accurate understanding of physics. Religious beliefs have a different purpose. The facts about the world are an important part of our knowledge but not the only important part. There's all sorts of other things to make sense of as well, values, relationships, our human nature, and these things don't tend to categorise as sharply as scientific fact. Infact, trying to treat them scientifically will fail.
(It's too complex to back up in this paragraph, but I absolutely recommend this book that is written by a guy who is well studied in the psychology of thought, learning and even backs up his theories with neuroscience.)

To put it shortly:
Your gf's musings on religion don't require the same hardline accuracy as facts of the world as they don't have a purpose that requires such accuracy. And to demand that she treats them in such a disciplined way is kind of attacking her personal intuitive take on the world. It's the side to us that our creativity comes from.

You really need to watch the whole video to understand Pat’s point. Sorry, I realise now that the quote can easily be taken out of context.

I did. It doesn't make the sentiment revealed in that statement any more palatable. There is a difference between not respecting an idea as a default position, ie: 'convince me', and not respecting people by default.

It's female woo-woo.  Generally they are quite susceptible due to their more emotional nature and in all likelyhood you will never understand it.  One month it will be crystal healing then six months later it will be something equally weird.

The way I'd counter this is to be equally irrational yourself.  Start having wacky beliefs and back these up by doing things with regard to these beliefs.  When she questions them, as she will, start ranting at her that she doesn't respect your belief.  Nothing like fighting fire with fire.  She should be able to see the logic after you've done some crazy things.

I remember a time when I was younger and still living with my parents and I was trying to find  my football boots 9and I was footie mad) even though I could have sworn I'd put them in a specific place.  After enquiring my mum said she had thrown them away because she was annoyed at having them in her way.  I was really pissed.  About a week later I decided to throw out a piece of glassware, very costly and had great sentimental value to her which was on the sidebaord cos I needed the space.  A few weeks passed and she noticed it had gone.  On asking I told her I had thrown it out cos it was in my way and I needed the space.  She went mental, but I then reminded her of what she had done with my boots.  I then made her agree that if ever there was something in her way rather than get all huffy about it she could simply ask for me to remove it.  Even now she daren't touch anything of mine without asking, so it was a good lesson learned.