From a reddit post. Apparently the "Guy" she is talking about is her brother.

http://www.juliarocchi.com/2011/09/how-i...-love.html

Yes, very honest. A convenient summation for an atheist - that she apparently had no rationale.

That made me feel warm and fuzzy after reading it.

I admire her acceptance of her brother,but not her needy faith, nor her reasoning and certainly not the skewed notion of the burden of proof.

Oh FFS, he told her he didn't believe in fairy tales...not that he had terminal cancer.

Theists are such whiners.

Title of thread should be; "Very boring story from a theist. Too bad so many theists are this boring..."

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(September 14, 2011 at 6:55 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes, very honest. A convenient summation for an atheist - that she apparently had no rationale.

We don't need a little summary by some whining girl to let us know your beliefs are silly fr0d0

Quote:Too bad so many theists are this boring..."

Yes. Precisely.

They are boring as hell, aren't they?

Always whining about sin and grace and their fucking sky-daddy.

Well said, Void.

(September 14, 2011 at 10:23 pm)theVOID Wrote: We don't need a little summary by some whining girl to let us know your beliefs are silly fr0d0

And then you post this?

(September 14, 2011 at 10:23 pm)theVOID Wrote: My beliefs in short:

Metaphysical Naturalist (Nature is all we are justified in believing)
Free Market Capitalist (Trade is the business of those trading, not you)
Social Individualist (people are free to do what they like so long as they don't impose on others)
Epistemic Bayesian (we can only know in probabilistic terms)

Didn't you omit 'Callous Dickhead Egotist (fuck everybody else)' from that list?

Sorry, but I 'm distinctly unmoved.

I don't find anything interesting or moving about the story. In fact it's rather pathetic that this person has admitted they only believe because they want to and they're scared. If people want to lie to themselves and believe something false because the truth scares them, fine. But no, it does nothing to move me. The fact that she can see someone close to her who is happier than she is without all that shit must be hard to take, but if she was intellectually honest she could have it too.