Religious Funerals

[Secular Elf]

I have not been on Atheist Forums much in the past couple of months mainly because one I have been on Facebook mostly and reading an e-book and also my brother died a couple of weeks ago.

Majority of my family are Christian, I am the only atheist in this family that I know of.

I attended his funeral. Though I intellectually understand the need for funerals, both anthropologically and sociologically, on a personal level for myself I do not like attending Christian funeral services. When my uncle died about a month and a half ago, I did not attend, mainly because I do not like being around my Conservative and Republican relatives, but also I do not want to be preached to. Christian funerals are, as far as I am concerned, an excuse to proselytize people and I hate being proselytized.

All the people who came to me and gave their religious platitudes of "he is in a better place" and "he is in heaven with God" do not impress me. It only pisses me off.

So, at any rate, there it is. Another example of why rational secular people get dumped on living in a general and specific religious culture.

I am venting. Just wanted to get this off my chest. Yes my brother was a Christian, but I still loved him and I miss him. I said goodbye, in my own way, despite all the nonsense.