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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2012 at 12:09 pm by Tiberius.)
Added a "some" option.
Not everyone in the family knows, but I'm not actively hiding it from them. If they asked I'd be honest with them. I'm quite a private person in some respects; I doubt many of my family know of my political beliefs either.
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 12:13 pm
If people want to change their vote I believe there is an "undo vote" thing you can click. Then just vote again.
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 12:42 pm
Were mostly all Athiests some are more militant then others.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 12:56 pm
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All of my family know and do not give a flying fuck, even the Catholics(who are Catholic by tradition rather than observation). I feel for those on here who do not feel they can tell their families, it's quite sad that you can't be honest because of the simple mindedness of others.
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 1:15 pm
Mine doesn't know, mostly because it's never come up. Mom's slightly religious, but it doesn't really affect anything. I think she's mostly a christian because of her near NDE anyway.
This is stupid
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Yes, pretty much all my family know and as far as I'm aware pretty much all of them are atheists as well, or perhaps would identify as such if they considered it. It's not such a big deal over here; we even got rid of our ridiculous blasphemy laws years ago (so I love it when someone accuses me of blaspemy - it's one 'crime' I can't be guilty of!). Out of all the members of my family, I'd say my Dad is the one who most closely shares my views, on this and many other issues. His interest in the subject has certainly increased this past year or so and he often picks my brains about it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Actually, I have changed my mind. Why do some of you worry about what others think? It may be time for you to be honest and for them to grow up. Do not live your life by the expectations of others.
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm
The only people I have not told I have done so out of concern for others. I don't really give a fuck if anyone knows.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Does your family know that you are an atheist?
April 20, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Some of my family may know - if they've bothered to look at my profile on my facebook page. If they know, they've not said anything. No one in my family is very religious - during my years of belief, I was the odd one out for being so involved in church and such.
Religion is not the answer-it is the problem. Everything considered, we would be better off without it.~Baubles of Blasphemy~Edwin F. Kagin
"Much better to have the ability to think critically, than the ability to quote scripture. One says you have a functioning mind. The other says you're a parrot." -- The Secular Buddhist
