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Hello
July 12, 2013 at 5:10 pm
I'm new. I'm Melinda. I've recently come to the realization that I'm an Atheist. I was raised Catholic my whole life and then converted to the Mormon church when I was 23 years old. I have two children, E is 10 and M is 6. My family likes to e-mail me, FB me, call me (although I have them all blocked from those means now) and tell me I'm going to hell.
They don't seem to understand that I do not believe in hell. My grandma also doesn't seem to get that my children can believe in whatever they want to believe in. My oldest son has decided that he is an Atheist and my youngest doesn't know what he is at this point. I belong to a meetup group for San Diego parents called Parenting Beyond Religion.
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RE: Hello
July 12, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Welcome. I'm a recovering Catholic myself. I think you will like it here. I find it to be a good source of support, and information. My two remaining relatives are both older sisters, one is a nun and the other a Sunday school teacher and neither will talk to me since I'm a godless atheist. Yeah it hurt, but not so much anymore. My wife's family really don't care about such things. (She's from a Pentacostal background). I think it's good that you've found a support group to hook up with.
See you around
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
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RE: Hello
July 12, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Welcome!
However, you are not allowed to post until you answer a simple question. What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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RE: Hello
July 12, 2013 at 6:23 pm
Welcome. I'm also a recovering Catholic, 13 years wafer free.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2013 at 12:05 am
(July 12, 2013 at 6:23 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Welcome. I'm also a recovering Catholic, 13 years wafer free.
Catholics get the fancy wafers and real wine and shit for Communion. Us Southern Baptists got broken up saltine crackers and grape juice for the "Lord's Supper".
Major let down.
"This is just a fucking cracker and Welches grape juice! Fucking Baptists! Fuck this shit!"
Seriously. If you're going to act like it's special give us something we can't buy at the store for a buck fifty.
Oh, sorry. Welcome Moose!
Everything I needed to know about life I learned on Dagobah.
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2013 at 6:29 am
You will find many hugs here.
Welcome.
In this desert of language we find ourselves in,
with the sign-post with the word 'God' worn away
...and the distance?
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RE: Hello
July 13, 2013 at 6:30 am
HI MOOSE
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
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